Graph-Based Detection of Disinformation Narrative Diffusion between Russian and Ukrainian Telegram Channels

arXiv cs.CL Papers

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This paper proposes a graph-based framework that combines weak supervision with propagation graph analysis to detect and analyze disinformation narratives in Telegram ecosystems, focusing on Russian and Ukrainian channels.

arXiv:2607.11894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting disinformation narratives on social media is challenging due to the scale of amplification, rapid evolution, and linguistic variability of online content. We propose a graph-based framework for identifying and analyzing disinformation narratives in Telegram ecosystems by combining weak supervision with propagation graph analysis. The approach aggregates semantically related claims into narrative-level clusters and models their diffusion across interconnected channels. This enables the detection of coordinated narrative amplification that is difficult to capture through post-level analysis alone. Our results demonstrate that integrating textual signals with network structure provides a scalable method for detecting disinformation narratives and offers insights into how they propagate within large-scale messaging environments.
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# Graph-Based Detection of Disinformation Narrative Diffusion between Russian and Ukrainian Telegram Channels
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> Abstract:Detecting disinformation narratives on social media is challenging due to the scale of amplification, rapid evolution, and linguistic variability of online content\. We propose a graph\-based framework for identifying and analyzing disinformation narratives in Telegram ecosystems by combining weak supervision with propagation graph analysis\. The approach aggregates semantically related claims into narrative\-level clusters and models their diffusion across interconnected channels\. This enables the detection of coordinated narrative amplification that is difficult to capture through post\-level analysis alone\. Our results demonstrate that integrating textual signals with network structure provides a scalable method for detecting disinformation narratives and offers insights into how they propagate within large\-scale messaging environments\.

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From: Viktoriia Makovska \[[view email](https://arxiv.org/show-email/150d0a21/2607.11894)\] **\[v1\]**Sat, 9 May 2026 08:35:16 UTC \(519 KB\)

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