Table 2 Composition of the main discursive communities of the verified-unverified network after the label propagation. The projection on the verified users is shown in Fig. 5: from the projected network, the so-found communities are fixed labels in the verified-unverified bipartite network, and are then assigned to the rest of the users via label propagation. The validated bots % and validated suspended % columns show the percentages of bots and suspended users in the community that share a significant number of commonly retweeted hashtags with other users of the same type and therefore appear in the hashtags-users projections of Fig. 7: the higher these percentages are, the more the automated accounts are coordinated
# | Type | Size | Most retweeted verified users | % of bots | % of suspended users | % of verified users | % of validated bots | % of validated suspended users | Link density |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | anti-Brexit | 479,718 | davidschneider, DavidLammy, mrjamesob, Femi_Sorry, JimMFelton, HackedOffHugh, Channel4News, Keir_Starmer, LibDems | 4.66% | 4.71% | 1.33% | 3.16% | 4.68% | 7.9 |
2 | pro-Brexit | 166,254 | BorisJohnson, Nigel_Farage, LeaveEUOfficial, Conservatives, brexitparty_uk, darrengrimes_, GoodwinMJ, KTHopkins, JuliaHB1 | 6.91% | 11.76% | 1.03% | 2.91% | 7.34% | 12.72 |
3 | pro-Trump | 112,766 | realDonaldTrump, ScottPresler, DiamondandSilk, RealCandaceO, ddale8, greggutfeld, DineshDSouza, IngrahamAngle, mtracey | 3.7% | 23.09% | 0.71% | 12.14% | 7% | 2.64 |
4 | Labour | 106,227 | jeremycorbyn, OwenJones84, BBCPolitics, UKLabour, PeterStefanovi2, PeoplesMomentum, yanisvaroufakis, bbcquestiontime | 8.79% | 6.78% | 0.75% | 0.71% | 1.92% | 1.63 |
5 | Scottish | 20,258 | theSNP, dannywallace, joannaccherry, NicolaSturgeon, IrvineWelsh, Feorlean, PeteWishart, AngusMacNeilSNP | 5.35% | 4.24% | 1.6% | 1.94% | 5.47% | 5.78 |
6 | News | 13,297 | Reuters, BBCBreaking, business Brexit, TheEconomist, AJEnglish, AFP, nytimes, FT, CNN | 8.92% | 7.97% | 4.93% | 3.63% | 1.13% | 1.64 |
7 | Indian | 8908 | gauravcsawant, swapan55, Iyervval, abhijitmajumder, AdityaRajKaul, TarekFatah, TVMohandasPai, WIONews, republic, samirsaran | 1.95% | 13.07% | 0.67% | 6.32% | 4.3% | 1.27 |
8 | Irish | 3323 | SJAMcBride, naomi_long, sinnfeinireland, SenatorMarkDaly, GerryAdamsSF, ClaireHanna, Mr_JSheffield, cstross, glynmoody, rtenews | 5.09% | 3.49% | 11.95% | 3.55% | 0% | 1.41 |