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The Dark Side of Micro-Task Marketplaces: Characterizing Fiverr and Automatically Detecting Crowdturfing [PDF]

, 2014
As human computation on crowdsourcing systems has become popular and powerful for performing tasks, malicious users have started misusing these systems by posting malicious tasks, propagating manipulated contents, and targeting popular web services such ...
Ge, Hancheng, Lee, Kyumin, Webb, Steve
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Coordinated campaigns on Twitter during the coronavirus health crisis in Mexico

Tapuya, 2022
Social media is fast becoming a key instrument to manipulate or influence social perception. Digital platforms are having a serious effect on the manipulation of public opinion through the spread of political propaganda and message amplification via ...
C. A. Piña-García, A. Espinoza
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Fine-Grained Recommendation Mechanism to Curb Astroturfing in Crowdsourcing Systems

IEEE Access, 2017
Crowdsourcing activities, carrying out large-scale tasks via wisdoms of crowds, are widely used in practice. However, it is hard for users to find tasks that are suitable for them.
Zhiwei Guo, Chaowei Tang, Wenjia Niu, Yunqing Fu, Tong Wu, Haiyang Xia, Hui Tang   +6 more
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Disguised Propaganda from Digital to Social Media [PDF]

, 2018
Disguised propaganda and political deception in digital media have been studied since the early days of the World Wide Web. At the intersection of internet research and propaganda studies, this chapter explores disguised propaganda on websites and social
AH Foxman, d m boyd, D Winseck, EF SantaVicca, GS Jowett, H Becker, J Aro, J Auerbach, J Daniels, J Daniels, J Daniels, J Dijck van, J Ellul, J Schou, J Zhang, JS Donath, JT Hancock, KA Foot, KD Good, L Floridi, LC Soley, M Castells, M Leiser, M Tate, MJ Sproule, NB Ellison, NK Baym, P Piper, PMA Linebarger, S Milan, S Žižek, ST Roberts, T Poell, W Lippmann, W Phillips, Y Tong   +35 more
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“Şebekeleşmiş Otoriteryanizm” ya da Otoriter Rejimlerin Siber Alanla İlişkisi: Rusya ve Çin Üzerine Bir Literatür İncelemesi

Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2018
Bilişim teknolojilerinin ve özellikle internetin yaygınlaşması ile otoriter rejimlerin demokratikleşeceği ve şeffaflık kazanacağı 1990’larda güçlü bir beklentiydi.
Mustafa Cem Oğuz
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Digital astroturfing in politics: Definition, typology, and countermeasures

Studies in Communication Sciences, 2018
In recent years, several instances of political actors who created fake grassroots activity on the Internet have been uncovered. We propose to call such fake online grassroots activity digital astroturfing, and we define it as a form of manufactured ...
Marko Kovic, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Marc Sele, Christian Caspar   +3 more
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Seminar Users in the Arabic Twitter Sphere

, 2017
We introduce the notion of "seminar users", who are social media users engaged in propaganda in support of a political entity. We develop a framework that can identify such users with 84.4% precision and 76.1% recall.
A Almaatouq, A Binns, A Zubiaga, AM Kaplan, C Castillo, C Hardaker, C Ruiz, C Wells, D Liu, E Ferrara, E Ferrara, EE Buckels, F Sebastiani, FJ Ortega, G Sarna, KK Cole, KS Adewole, M Hardalov, M McCord, MJ Moore, P Galán-García, P Shachaf, PT Slee, S Cresci, S Stieglitz, S Thacker, S Virkar, S Waisbord, W Li, Y Song, Z Bu   +30 more
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Conflict and Astroturfing in Niyamgiri: The Importance of National Advocacy Networks in Anti-Corporate Social Movements [PDF]

, 2013
Traditional models of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and stakeholder management do not capture the nuance and dynamics of (counter-)organising processes around anti-corporate mobilisation.
ActionAid, Amnesty International, Beder S., Brooks E., Cederlöf G., Chase S. E., Hernes T., Herring R. J., Holzscheiter A., Juska A., Katzenstein M, Keck M. E., Langley A., Padel F., Ray R., Rodriguez M. G., Shah G., Sikkink K., Silverman D., Smith J., Staggenborg S., Swain A.   +21 more
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The Fake Majority:

La Revista Icono 14
Purpose: This study explores how perceived astroturfing and media literacy influence individuals’ critical responses to online content. It examines whether awareness of astroturfing and self-reported evaluation style mediate this relationship ...
Tanase Tasente, Cristina-Dana Popescu
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Hasbara 2.0: Israel’s Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age [PDF]

, 2016
The Internet has been a counter-public space for Palestinian liberation politics for over a decade, and digital technologies have become an increasingly important tool for solidarity groups across the world.
Alexander A., Alexander A., Aouragh M., Aouragh M., Aouragh M., Artz L., Artz L., Baram D., Bishara A., Chomsky N., Eisenberg L. Z., Harb Z., INCITE!, Miriyam Aouragh, Najjar A., Nye J., Panment J., Philo G., Saeed S., Said E. W., Schleifer R., Schleifer R., Senor D., Shalom Z., Snow N., Snow N., Sparks C., Taylor P., White B.   +28 more
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