Hes talked about why so many runners aspire to participate bc its a qualifying race. A republican having a chance in massachusetts is a pretty big statement in itself, but an actual win would be huge. Senate, the democratic candidate, martha coakley, was the subject of a twitter bomb attack. She won reelection as attorney general in the 2010 general election. Ap a woman who reportedly slept with a knife and installed a surveillance camera after someone slashed her tires and broke her car windows was killed when a package exploded in her apartment. Tweety profs offer political smearmeme truthiness ratings. Massachusetts fines thai seafood company over pirated software. The new software which transforms the written information on an ituneslinked computer screen into speech or braille stemmed from an agreement between apple, the cupertino, calif. Keep an eye out for excerpts broadcast on their program tomorrow morning and if possible, capture them and post video here. Truthy web site to search, identify smear tactics, twitterbombs through election runup. Senate candidate martha coakley in the recent massachusetts senatorial elections. Coakley, apple agree on itunes access for blind the. Ag coakley seeks info on marathon bomb donations wbur news. When campaigns manipulate social media the atlantic.
Turner to pay costs of bomb scare hollywood reporter. Attorney general martha coakley, center, and district attorney jonathan blodgett, right, announce key indictments and arrests of members of an organized crime ring during a press conference. Coakley may share kennedys opposition to the death penalty, but her record as a prosecutor leaves plenty of doubt about her commitment to justice. This type of message propagation can be either natural or. Two researchers at wellesley university, panagiotis metaxas and eni mustafaraj, found that during a special election in massachusetts for u. A recent lending discrimination case settled in massachusetts illustrates why state attorneys general are pushing to keep the legal theory of disparate impact alive. Twitter bombing may be used for commercial advertising. Menczer got the idea for the truthy website after hearing researchers from wellesley college speak earlier this year on their research analyzing a wellknown twitter bomb campaign conducted by the conservative group american future fund aff against martha coakley, a democrat who lost the massachusetts senatorial seat formerly held by the late. Politico massachusetts playbook, presented by phrma. Mike brady pulls a coakley, helps himself to tow zone parking, from massgop. State of massachusetts insists on calling athf ads hoax. Brown could stop the so called healthcare reform bill. Our work is related to the detection of spam in twitter, which has been the subject of several recent studies.
Massachusetts ma senate race between martha coakley and scott brown in 2010. With retweets, the potential audience could have been seen by more than 60,000 people 3. Martha coakley 75, ephblogs favorite gubernatorial candidate, has some lobbyist issues. Twitter social network, where explicit followerfollowee social relations exist, they are not all equally important 26. This article is more than 6 years old attorney general martha coakley says she wants to make sure donations raised after the boston marathon bombing are being spent appropriately. A week before midjanuarys special election, a rasmussen poll found brown trailing martha coakley, the democratic frontrunner, by nine points not bad for a littleknown conservative.
Martha coakley, the democrat was 30 points ahead in the early polls, and i dont think that she saw the title wave of discontent that was coming, that scott brown, the republican is riding so. Bots unite to automate the presidential election wired. Fortunately for our purposes, twitter provides an explicit way to mark the diffusion of information in the form of retweets. At least 14 blinking electronicdevices were found throughout boston on wednesday, creating chaos as police bomb squads shut major roads, bridges and even a section of the charles river. This is the most truthy or most suspicious meme on truthy so far. Big truthy is watching some of you realclearpolitics. In a globe story sunday, gregory sullivan, former inspector general, recounted a meeting with coakley in which, he says, she urged him to drop an investigation. A conservative group sent out 929 tweets in just over two hours linking to a website that attacked coakley.
Coakley, however, spent heavily in the primary, and started the. But, in william delahunts congressional district, brown. This case study demonstrates the ease with which a focused effort can initiate the viral spread of information on twitter, and the serious consequences this can have. Realtime results for the phrase martha coakley displayed on the first page. After a gentle nudge from massachusetts attorney general martha coakley, apple inc.
The bomb directly touched 573 users, but the falloutusers who. Truthy web site to search, identify smear tactics, twitter bombs through election runup. Computer science shows how twitterbombs wield influence. But menczer himself admits the project arose after he learned about a conservative twitter bomb campaign against failed senate democratic candidate martha coakley in. Bots tend to have few followers and disappear quickly, dropping propaganda bombs as they go. His informationgathering system bears liberal comedian stephen colberts neologism truthy. Takis metaxas, associate professor of computer science. We observed the first twitter bomb during the 2010 ma special senatorial election 8. Conservative group used tweet strategy against coakley the. Googles real time search generates fresh and continuous feeds from video, news, blogs, forums and twitter. Conservative group used tweet strategy against coakley. But menczer himself admits the project arose after he learned about a conservative twitter bomb campaign against failed senate democratic candidate martha coakley in 2010.
New website helps you find out if political tweets are truthy. With regards to numbers, an example of a twitter bomb analyzed in one research paper described how nine fake user accounts produced 929 tweets in 8 minutes, all with a url to a political website, presenting negative views on the u. Coakley was defeated 52% to 47% by republican scott brown in what was widely considered an upset. Among its findings were the discovery and documentation of what was labeled a twitter bomb, an organized effort to spread misinformation about the democratic candidate martha coakley through. Big truthy is watching some of you, by michelle malkin. This metadata tells us which links in the social network have actually played a role the. Massachusetts democrats prepare to help republicans retake. It came through a terrorist bombing more unified than it had been. Candidate for governor martha coakley is vehemently denying allegations made by former inspector general greg sullivan that as attorney general her office showed a lack of interest in pursuing an. Authorities believe a stalker was behind the explosion, the boston herald reported friday, quoting an investigator it did not identify. Washington attorney general martha coakleys record was attacked in television. Sep 28, 2010 astroturfers, twitter bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading indiana university information and computer scientists today unleashed diana.
Twitter bombing is one of the tools used in internet activism, both by mainstream politicians like barack obama and by groups like anonymous the earliest recorded usage of the twitter bomb is from august 2008, when. Michael brady dbrockton seems to be emulating ag martha coakleys 2014. An early example from april 2009 referred to advertising a youtube video series ask a ninja politics. Among its findings were the discovery and documentation of what was termed a twitter bomb, an organized effort to spread misinformation about the democratic candidate martha coakley through. Nov 12, 2014 but menczer himself admits the project arose after he learned about a conservative twitter bomb campaign against failed senate democratic candidate martha coakley in 2010. The term twitter bomb or tweet bomb refers to posting numerous pejoratively, spamming. But the republicans may have a good shot at winning the governors mansion this. Among its findings were the discovery and documentation of what was labeled a twitter bomb. Blue lines indicate retweets while orange represents mentions. Of course, the power of widespread, unfiltered information invites the possibility of abuse. State ags ask supreme court to keep disparate impact alive. Sep 17, 2010 beth lindstrom added, one of martha coakley s major problems is shes still the same martha the voters rejected last january. Jan 12, 2010 scott brown vs martha coakley for massachusetts senate the massachusetts special election senate race between scott brown r and martha coakley d is really starting to heat up. Nov 01, 2010 new website helps you find out if political tweets are truthy by.
Mar 01, 2010 republican scott brown beat democrat martha coakley by five points in the senatorial contest to succeed ted kennedy in massachusetts. The 42yearold software tester also failed to pay federal income taxes, according to middlesex county dist. Detecting and tracking the spread of astroturf memes in. Coakley, sullivan differ over dimasi probe wbur news. In the process, we analyze the twitter activity of those involved in exchanging messages, and we. Who was hiding behind the first twitter bomb against u. This week, president obama launched a prominent social media campaign on behalf of net neutrality and urged the fcc to keep the internet free and open. The original idea for truthy arose in reaction to an attempt by a group called the american future fund to influence the massachusetts special senatorial election to fill the late senator edward.
Massachusetts is one of the most politically liberal and democratic states in america. State senator scott brown has turned the race into a referendum on the democrats proposed takeover of americas health care industry, unabashedly putting himself forth as the 41st vote that will stop the socalled health care reform bill from passing the senate. Truthy web site to search, identify smear tactics, twitter. Coakley is now a lobbyist for the ecigarette company juul. Nov 14, 2014 but menczer himself admits the project arose after he learned about a conservative twitter bomb campaign against failed senate democratic candidate martha coakley in 2010.
May 04, 2010 conservative group used tweet strategy against coakley. How journalists fought back against crippling email. With little effort, the link bait blog post itself ranked first page for numerous scott brown, massachusetts senate race, and martha coakley related queries, driving a bunch of organic traffic, which helped drive awareness and additional coverage real time search. Twitter, plague and facebook researchgate, the professional. However, the software we are developing will make it easier to detect. Coakley was caught totally off guard at this and become one of the more famous victims of this practice. Big truthy is watching some of you news, sports, jobs. The investigation revealed that rossetti and quezada ordered two other associates, edward harris and michael prochilo, jr. To learn more, please visit jim mckennas campaign website at. In this paper, after summarizing the details of that event, we outline the recipe of how social networks are used to spread misinformation.
To support our argument we provide concrete evidence from the recent massachusetts ma senate race between martha coakley and scott brown, analyzing political community behavior on twitter. New website helps you find out if political tweets are. Stalked woman killed in package bomb blast deseret news. Flockdb periscope starling vine mergers and acquisitions. Nov 17, 2014 she headed up the civil rights division under martha coakley, attracting credit for challenging the defense of marriage act. Our research reveals that it was the same group of iowa conservatives that attacked john kerry in 2004. For example, daniel john sobieski, a conservative activist on twitter with the username. Im not sure to what extent the beredovsky and stevens prosecution was the responsibility of coakley or suffolk county da dan conley. Et boston ap turner broadcasting systems and interference inc. A member of the boston bomb squad inspects a suspicious package before neutralizing it using a water cannonlike device wednesday, jan. Feb 02, 2007 twitter facebook rss heres a press release i received from the office of massachusetts attorney general martha coakley. But menczer himself admits the project arose after he learned about a conservative twitter bomb campaign against failed democratic senate candidate martha coakley in 2010. The democrats are sweating bullets over the special election next tuesday to replace the late sen.
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