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Bots as Active News Promoters: A Digital Analysis of COVID-19 Tweets
Information, 2020 In this study, we examined the activities of automated social media accounts or bots that tweet or retweet referencing #COVID-19 and #COVID19. From a total sample of over 50 million tweets, we used a mixed method to extract more than 185,000 messages ...
Ahmed Al-Rawi, Vishal Shukla
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A militância forjada dos bots: A campanha municipal de 2016 como laboratório eleitoral
Lumina, 2021 Os “bots políticos” são perfis automatizados programados para atuar nas redes sociais com o objetivo de influenciar as discussões políticas, endossar ou difamar um candidato, disseminar propaganda de campanha, criar ruído no debate público e interferir ...
Rose Marie Santini +3 more
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, 2021 What kinds of uncertainties does the robotization of the domestic sphere and everyday life involve, and what are the cultural logics of robotization? This chapter is an imaginary dialogue between human authors and social robots, along the lines of Turing’
Kant, Tanya +3 more
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Demystifying Social Bots: On the Intelligence of Automated Social Media Actors
Social Media + Society, 2020 Recently, social bots , (semi-) automatized accounts in social media, gained global attention in the context of public opinion manipulation. Dystopian scenarios like the malicious amplification of topics, the spreading of disinformation, and the ...
Dennis Assenmacher +5 more
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The strength of weak bots [PDF]
, 2021 Some fear that social bots, automated accounts on online social networks, propagate falsehoods that can harm public opinion formation and democratic decision-making. Empirical research, however, resulted in puzzling findings. On the one hand, the content
Keijzer, M. A. +4 more
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Une introduction aux Bots Twitter avec Tracery
The Programming Historian en Français, 2020 Cette leçon explique comment créer de simples bots Twitter à l’aide de la grammaire Tracery et du service Cheap Bots Done Quick. Tracery est interopérable avec plusieurs langages de programmation et peut être intégrée dans des sites web, des jeux ou des ...
Shawn Graham
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Communications of the ACM, 2016 Today's social bots are sophisticated and sometimes menacing. Indeed, their presence can endanger online ecosystems as well as our society.
Emilio Ferrara +4 more
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Current and Future Bots in Software Development
, 2019 Bots that support software development ("DevBots") are seen as a promising approach to deal with the ever-increasing complexity of modern software engineering and development.
Riccardo Scandariato +13 more
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The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The identification of bots is an important and complicated task. The bot classifier "Botometer" was successfully introduced as a way to estimate the number of bots in a given list of accounts and, as a consequence, has been frequently used in academic ...
Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jonas Kaiser
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Vaccines, 2022 This study aims to analyze the role of bots in the dissemination of health information, both in favor of and opposing vaccination against COVID-19. Study design: An observational, retrospective, time-limited study was proposed, in which activity on the ...
Carlos Ruiz-Núñez +7 more
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