{"id":117917,"date":"2019-04-07T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/europes-populists-are-flooding-social-media-research-shows-5\/"},"modified":"2019-04-07T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T19:00:09","slug":"europes-populists-are-flooding-social-media-research-shows-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/europes-populists-are-flooding-social-media-research-shows-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Europes populists are flooding social media, research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European populists are dominating much of the online political discussion around the upcoming European election thanks to frenetic posting by a small number of users and accounts, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the European Parliament election in May, a tiny number of social media users sympathetic to parties including far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Spains Vox accounted for a major chunk of total posts on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and others, according to an analysis by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alto-analytics.com\/en_US\/eu-elections-public-digital-debate\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alto Analytics<\/a>, a big data and artificial intelligence company. Their predominance helped to amplify anti-immigration and anti-establishment views and force them into mainstream debates.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 0.1 percent of users across Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Poland \u2014 many of them tied to far-right or fringe groups \u2014 generated around 10 percent of content related to politics and the European election on the platform over a one-month period ending on January 20. Many of these hyper-users posted hundreds of pieces of content each day; some appeared to be automated accounts, or bots, aimed at amplifying far-right messages.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a tiny number of users is able to amplify political messages to such a degree fuels fears of possible manipulation of the online debate, in the midst of calls from around the world to crack down on deceptive online activity during election campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Platforms including Twitter, Facebook (which owns Instagram) and Google (which owns YouTube) have signed up to the European Commissions <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/digital-single-market\/en\/news\/code-practice-disinformation\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code of Practice on Disinformation<\/a>, taking steps to limit the reach and influence of users trying to interfere in legitimate political discussion \u2014 such as trolls, automated bot accounts and inauthentic accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get a relatively small group generating such a large percentage of content is emblematic of fringe parties,\u201d said Ben Nimmo, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who was not associated with the research. \u201cThe goal is to break out of their echo chambers and reach other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The populist groups were most effective at amplifying \u2014 or inflating \u2014 their online message in France, Germany and Spain, where anti-establishment parties and the far right have gained traction over the last 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>In France, for instance, just 0.13 percent of the countrys social media users engaged in the political discussion created 11.1 percent of all posts, posting at least 52 posts a day, or roughly two posts an hour, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alto-analytics.com\/en_US\/francedigital-public-debate-ahead-of-eu-parliamentary-elections\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Alto Analytics research<\/a>. Of those users, the researchers linked more than half with the countrys far-right National Rally movement, based on the companys analysis of the social media content.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, a similar pattern was on display, with social media users associated with Alternative for Germany rep<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-far-right-groups-noisier-than-others-on-twitter-research-shows-afd-germany-facebook-google-alto-analytics\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European populists are dominating much of the online politic..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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