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Exposure to social bots amplifies perceptual biases and regulation propensity [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Automated accounts on social media that impersonate real users, often called “social bots,” have received a great deal of attention from academia and the public.
Harry Yaojun Yan +3 more
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An adept approach to ascertain and elude probable social bots attacks on twitter and twitch employing machine learning approach [PDF]
MethodsX, 2023 There has been a tremendous increase in the popularity of social media such as blogs, Instagram, twitter, online websites etc. The increasing utilization of these platforms have enabled the users to share information on a regular basis and also publicize
Monikka Reshmi Sethurajan +1 more
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Social bots spoil activist sentiment without eroding engagement [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSocial bots are highly active on social media platforms, significantly affecting online discourse. We analyzed the dynamic nature of bot engagement related to Extinction Rebellion climate change protests in 2019.
Linda Li +2 more
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Bot, or not? Comparing three methods for detecting social bots in five political discourses [PDF]
Big Data & Society, 2021 Social bots – partially or fully automated accounts on social media platforms – have not only been widely discussed, but have also entered political, media and research agendas. However, bot detection is not an exact science.
Franziska Martini +3 more
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Social Bots' Involvement in the COVID-19 Vaccine Discussions on Twitter. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Zhang M, Qi X, Chen Z, Liu J.
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Social Bots' Role in the COVID-19 Pandemic Discussion on Twitter. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 Zhang Y +6 more
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Social Bots' Sentiment Engagement in Health Emergencies: A Topic-Based Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Discussions on Twitter. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Shi W +5 more
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SocietiesThis study explored the impact of social conformity when participants encountered unanimous responses from bots to both objective and subjective questions.
Tamas Olah, Laszlo Erdey
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The Bots Ruining Social Science Aren’t Bots At All
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021 Online data collection from human subjects currently faces a conundrum: it is both essential to how behavioral science functions and threatened by low-quality data. It is often assumed that random, inconsistent, and otherwise incomprehensible data in online surveys comes mainly from “bots.” Despite this assumption, few studies have directly examined ...
Shalom N. Jaffe +6 more
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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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