Political Narratives in the 2024 Moldovan Presidential Election: Stance, Amplification, and Influence
Social media platforms play a central role in shaping political discourse during elections, particularly in geopolitically contested regions. We study how political narratives emerged, aligned, and propagated during the 2024 Moldovan presidential election by analyzing publicly available posts collected from X, Facebook, and Reddit between August and October 2024. Combining multilingual stance detection, coordination analysis, and causal inference, we examine both descriptive and causal mechanisms underlying online political discourse. First, we apply large language models to classify stance toward European integration, Russia, and the two main presidential candidates, revealing clear cros...
| Authors | Andrea Piras, Osman Rahmoun, Elena Zheleva |
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| Primary category | cs.SI |
| Published | 15 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 October 2026 |
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