AN INTERACTIVE INVESTIGATION
Cuba. Connected.
Dmitriy Pak · Columbia University
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Fidel Castro · April 15, 1959
Warren K. Leffler / Library of Congress · archival context
DECEMBER 2018 / CUBA
The island.
Online.
Mobile internet opened to the public in December 2018.
User-supplied image · illustrative context
ANOTHER THEME
Medical diplomacy.
Positive stories about Cuban doctors circulated through the network.
Stanford, Figure 3, p. 9 · pictured doctors are not identified as network operators
The instruction was public.
One hashtag. A specified time to post.
THE INVITATION’S SCHEDULE
Seven countries.
One call to post.
Times as stated in the invitation · not measured reach
JANUARY–MAY 2020 / TABLE 4
A new hashtag.
Almost every week.
Tweets in the released dataset · not all of Twitter
JANUARY 1–MAY 31, 2020
90.6% were retweets.
1,215,295 of 1,341,637 tweets
One tile = 0.1% of this sample · tweets, not viewers
THE PROFILE IMAGES
A portrait with another source.
A borrowed image does not establish automated posting.
WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS
Coordination:
documented.
Persuasion:
unmeasured.
Watch for renewed networks. Investigate effects before claiming them.
Dmitriy Pak · NECR PS5250 · Columbia University
Student project / AI-assisted presentation