2025-08-18 スイス連邦工科大学ローザンヌ校（EPFL）
In this diagram, each dot represents a Telegram account. A line indicates that an account has replicated a comment from another account with the same wording. The diagram shows that propaganda accounts (right) behave very differently to normal accounts (left). They create networks that repost the same content over and over again. © 2025 EPFL / Ruhr University
＜関連情報＞
- https://actu.epfl.ch/news/first-propaganda-detection-mechanism-for-telegram/
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08084
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity25/sec25cycle1-prepub-250-kireev.pdf
テレグラムにおけるプロパガンダ拡散アカウントの特性評価と検出 Characterizing and Detecting Propaganda-Spreading Accounts on Telegram
Klim Kireev, Yevhen Mykhno, Carmela Troncoso, Rebekah Overdorf
arXiv Submitted on 12 Jun 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.08084
Abstract
Information-based attacks on social media, such as disinformation campaigns and propaganda, are emerging cybersecurity threats. The security community has focused on countering these threats on social media platforms like X and Reddit. However, they also appear in instant-messaging social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal. In these platforms information-based attacks primarily happen in groups and channels, requiring manual moderation efforts by channel administrators. We collect, label, and analyze a large dataset of more than 17 million Telegram comments and messages. Our analysis uncovers two independent, coordinated networks that spread pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian propaganda, garnering replies from real users. We propose a novel mechanism for detecting propaganda that capitalizes on the relationship between legitimate user messages and propaganda replies and is tailored to the information that Telegram makes available to moderators. Our method is faster, cheaper, and has a detection rate (97.6%) 11.6 percentage points higher than human moderators after seeing only one message from an account. It remains effective despite evolving propaganda.
