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Title:Large-Scale Analysis of Political Propaganda on Moltbook

View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:We present an NLP-based study of political propaganda on Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform for AI agents. To enable large-scale analysis, we develop LLM-based classifiers to detect political propaganda, validated against expert annotation (Cohen's $\kappa$= 0.64-0.74). Using a dataset of 673,127 posts and 879,606 comments, we find that political propaganda accounts for 1% of all posts and 42% of all political content. These posts are concentrated in a small set of communities, with 70% of such posts falling into five of them. 4% of agents produced 51% of these posts. We further find that a minority of these agents repeatedly post highly similar content within and across communities. Despite this, we find limited evidence that comments amplify political propaganda.

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