School of Humanities and Social Science Division of Social Science 230 Changing Alliances in Trump’s White House: Networks and Elite Politics Supervisor: KELLER Franziska / SOSC Student: UPADHYAY Ritika / FINA Course: UROP1000, Summer This report describes the research project that aims to understand the alliances in Trump's White House during the period of the 2016 United States Elections. The data for the analysis is collected from the 116th Congress Senate Report and is used to identify networks among people to better understand the relationships among relevant political actors. A social network analysis tool by the name of Gephi was used to examine these networks in greater detail. This report discusses the findings, issues and conclusions derived from this examination. Political Astroturfing Worldwide: How to Manipulate Public Opinion on Twitter Supervisor: KELLER Franziska / SOSC Student: CHAN Ho Ting / QSA Course: UROP1100, Fall Twitter periodically releases data sets on suspicious accounts related to alleged political astroturfing campaign. With the release of a set of data related to a group of patriotic Cubans, this report found several abnormal characteristics presented in the group, these included a sudden increase of account creation and activity when there was a simultaneous drop of internet penetration in Cuba, highly active Twitter behaviour from the group, inconsistency between account language and tweet language, suspicious popularity of certain Twitter accounts, and that some of the users reported location correlates with a much higher Twitter activity comparing with the other users. By discovering these abnormal characteristics of the group, this report aims to help develop methods for identifying political astroturfing campaigns and discuss future investigation directions. Political Astroturfing Worldwide: How to Manipulate Public Opinion on Twitter Supervisor: KELLER Franziska / SOSC Student: KIM Hanbin / BIBU Course: UROP1100, Fall This report analyzed the tweets and retweets of 70 twitter accounts who are attributed to state backed information operations originating from Ghana/Nigeria targeting the 2021 US election. From the graph plotting the number of tweets or retweets against years, a sudden increase in activity is observed during the second half of 2019. Hence, this report divides into two sections: before and after 2019 January for the analysis. In the analysis, the number of accounts created before and after 2019, the number of followers for each account, hashtag trend and word cloud were used to highlight how this political astroturfing campaign took place. This report also further gave a chance to think about the outsourced political astroturfing campaign around the world.
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