From the Stage to the Audience: Propaganda on Reddit

Oana Balalau, Roxana Horincar


Abstract
Political discussions revolve around ideological conflicts that often split the audience into two opposing parties. Both parties try to win the argument by bringing forward information. However, often this information is misleading, and its dissemination employs propaganda techniques. In this work, we analyze the impact of propaganda on six major political forums on Reddit that target a diverse audience in two countries, the US and the UK. We focus on three research questions: who is posting propaganda? how does propaganda differ across the political spectrum? and how is propaganda received on political forums?
Anthology ID:
2021.eacl-main.309
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
Month:
April
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Paola Merlo, Jorg Tiedemann, Reut Tsarfaty
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EACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
3540–3550
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.309
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.309
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Cite (ACL):
Oana Balalau and Roxana Horincar. 2021. From the Stage to the Audience: Propaganda on Reddit. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 3540–3550, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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From the Stage to the Audience: Propaganda on Reddit (Balalau & Horincar, EACL 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.309.pdf
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