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This note describes code and experiments related to a Twitter dataset on the Danish National Election 2022, available at Harvard Dataverse (doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RWPZUN). We cluster Twitter users into bins of users that showed exactly the…
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Until recently, social media was seen to promote democratic discourse on social and political issues. However, this powerful communication platform has come under scrutiny for allowing hostile actors to exploit online discussions in an…
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