Mapping Italian News | 2022 Italian Election

Tracking the Italian Facebook Coordinated Link Sharing Networks in the Run-up of the 2022 General Election

Coordinated Link Sharing Behaviour (CLSB)

is a coordinated activity performed by a network of Facebook pages, groups or verified public profiles that
repeatedly shared the same news articles in a very short time from each other

Tracking

We track the best-performing posts published by known CLSB Italian networks/accounts every 6 hours.

Surfacing

Using a content-agnostic approach, we automatically surface potentially problematic content


Reporting

Each piece of surfaced content is reported to a pool of journalists, researchers, civil society and fact-checking organizations using the MINE-ELECTION-BOT

Detecting

Newly detected CLSB accounts are automatically added to the list of those tracked at each iteration