arXiv AI
Aug 18

Propaganda Forensics: Recovering the Generation Pipeline of an AI-Driven Influence Campaign

arXiv:2608. 15746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a forensic analysis of the generation pipeline behind a recent AI-driven influence campaign.

By Benjamin Icard, Elouan Vuichard, Louis Lefebvre, Lila Sainero, Thomas Girault, Alice Breton, Tanguy Launay, Gauvain Bourgne, Morgane Casanova, Guillaume Gadek, Victor Kl\"otzer, Michel Le Nouy, Guillaume Gravier, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Paul \'Egr\'e
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

SWARM: A Multilingual Human-Annotated Dataset for Russian Propaganda Detection in Search Engine Results

The paper introduces SWARM, a multilingual dataset of 2,183 search engine results in nine languages, annotated for support of Russian propaganda narratives. It evaluates a source-based blocklist, supervised classifiers, and zero‑shot large language models, finding that blocklists miss most propaganda and that content‑level models vary in performance, with the best LLM achieving an F1 of 0.73. The study highlights the need for per‑language, content‑level detection of search‑borne propaganda.

By Manuel Tonneau, Abhinav Dubey, Farhan Shaikh, Ilaria Vitulano, Martha Stolze, Hale Dedeoglu, Clara Riechert, Ella Kuka, Maryna Sydorova, Mykola Makhortykh, Elizaveta Kuznetsova