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Large-Scale Analysis of Political Propaganda on Moltbook

arXiv cs.AI / 3/20/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper develops LLM-based classifiers to detect political propaganda on Moltbook and validates them against expert annotations (Cohen's kappa 0.64–0.74).
  • Using 673,127 posts and 879,606 comments, it finds political propaganda accounts for 1% of all posts but 42% of all political content.
  • Propaganda posts are concentrated in a small set of communities, with 70% of such posts falling into five communities, and 4% of agents producing 51% of these posts.
  • A minority of agents repeatedly post highly similar content across communities, and the study finds limited evidence that comments amplify political propaganda.

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.