Analyzing Astroturfed Discussions on Turkish Twitter

We’ve gathered Twitter dataset related Turkish elections in 2018 and 2019 as well as astroturfed topics involving bots and trolls from Turkey (see the paper below. You’re required to analyze astroturfed topics and their possible impact to elections. Can astroturfing harm election integrity significantly?

Potential resources: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07783

Deliverables: datasets, codebase, results of analysis, a nice presentations with visualizations that you can do interpretations on.

Requirements: Turkish language is required. Knowledge of Python and Pandas is required.