Election manipulation

Introductory picture {Picture 0} below shows grouped website scan of Government of the Country.

Various websites, linked to each other as every department is linked to one big picture, right?

Stay tuned!

In study below I have crawled top 10 of seemingly unrelated websites, known as suspect from close cooperation to reach certain foreign political interests.

The purpose of their existence is to spread disinformation and manipulate opinion of the public.

It is more than 600 thousands of links, yet they are connected to the several red dots in the center. These red dots do not represent any individuals, only another internet Entity, not disclosed on purpose.

{Picture 1: Scan of manipulative website reveals that they are actually handled by one Entity.}

Below is example of semantic separation of two different political (website) parties. As they are not lead by the same Entity, they are separated.

The lonely nodes are just signs that websites are poor quality and a bit broken. This might give some space to the hacktivists.

{Picture 2: This scan shows, how website of parties from opposite sides of political spectra are separated, as expected. It is red vs white.}

As effect of this hoaxes, fake news and propaganda issued by the Entity, the possible centers of so called radicalization of citizens already occurred.

{Picture 3: Website of self inflicted homeland security group, residing in all districts of the Country.}

Goal of this study is to show examples, how exploratory data analysis and visualization can help with non IT – related topic as well.

In this particular case, this is regularly being analysed by any Country’ s Intelligence agency, which is obligated to report the issues to the Prime minister / Government.

I do not mean to trigger discussion as a conspirator. Thus I have not disclosed which Country this is about, or which website were scanned.