In the scientific report “Coordinated link sharing on Facebook” published in Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from George Washington University and Texas A&M University advance methods for detecting coordinated posting across social media networks. GW Engineering professors H. Howie Huang and David Broniatowski, along with alumnus Jordan McShan, contributed to the study.
Here is and excerpt from the study abstract: “Malicious actors regularly attempt to manipulate social media using coordinated posting. Many existing methods for detecting this coordination, though, have relied primarily on post-timing, which is trivially easy to change. In this paper, we make a significant methodological advancement in coordination detection, leveraging highly regular statistical patterns in the speed and frequency of sharing.”
Read the full study in Scientific Reports.