IRGC Terrorist/Troll finder on social media

[osAIran]

IRGC Terrorist/Troll finder on social media

IRGC cyber army is actively working on social media platforms to spread misinformation and propaganda to divide the people and lower Iranians' morale. We have identified three cases of IRGC cyber army in social media platforms:

1. Famous known people with a high number of followers
2. Hidden users hiding under the pretense of being revolutionary and inciting information warfare
3. Follower of famous accounts

The first and third cases are easy to detect with a graph and network analysis and a simple search between posts (e.g., “Yes to Khamenei”). Still, a big challenge is finding hidden trolls that hide under the pretense of for example being Monarchists and trying to divide the people and spread misinformation.

To bootstrap this project we need to:

1. Gather network data
2. Start with the easy cases (a simple search of keywords and other feature engineering, and then analyze the social networks to identify IRGC cyber army)
3. Gathering textual data from Twitter and use NLP models alongside what we have created in the first phase.

Feature Engineering:

• Often users with 👑 in their profile name are IRGC cyber army but not always.
• Inbred follower networks

[armantorkzaban]

I have found some efforts from the community in this direction: https://www.arzeshiyab.com/ https://twitter.com/arzeshi_check

[osAIran]

We need to contact them and see whether they are open to open sourcing this project so that we can build upon their platform

[armantorkzaban]

I have with one. They are not open, but they have given me their pseudocode and said that they are ok with us implementing it and they might contribute to our code. I'm talking about https://twitter.com/arzeshi_check

[osAIran]

With that pseudo code we can start a Kaggle competition and let collective solve this problem