This 2015 paper is in the news now because of the "information operations" campaign that abused Facebook data to influence the 2016 election. Authors of this p

This 2015 paper is in the news now because of the "information operations" campaign that abused Facebook data to influence the 2016 election. Authors of this paper communicated with the people behind the information operations campaign [0, 1], but it's not clear to me how closely they collaborated. [0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-li... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...