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Complexity, 2022 Social-bots-mediated information manipulation is influencing the public opinion environment, and their role and behavior patterns in news proliferation are worth exploring.
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Social Bots As an Instrument of Influence in Social Networks: Typologization Problems [PDF]
, 2021 Nowadays, in the field of social bots investigations, we can observe a new research trend — a shift from a technology-centered to sociology-centered interpretations. It leads to the creation of new perspectives for sociology: now the phenomenon of social
Vasilkova, V. +3 more
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Identification of Bots and Cyborgs in the #FeesMustFall Campaign
Informatics, 2022 Bots (social robots) are computer programs that replicate human behavior in online social networks. They are either fully automated or semi-automated, and their use makes online activism vulnerable to manipulation.
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, 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become an emerging platform for the public to find information, share opinions, and seek coping strategies. Vaccination, one of the most effective public health interventions to control the COVID-19 pandemic,
Zhang, Menghan +7 more
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Characterizing Social Bots Spreading Financial Disinformation
, 2020 Despite the existence of several studies on the characteristics and role of social bots in spreading disinformation related to politics, health, science and education, financial social bots remain a largely unexplored topic.
S Cresci +3 more
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Disinformation in Social Networks and Bots: Simulated Scenarios of Its Spread from System Dynamics
Systems, 2022 Social networks have become the scenario with the greatest potential for the circulation of disinformation, hence there is a growing interest in understanding how this type of information is spread, especially in relation to the mechanisms used by ...
Alfredo Guzmán Rincón +3 more
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Detecting Bots and Assessing Their Impact in Social Networks [PDF]
Operations Research, 2022 Bots Impact Opinions in Social Networks: Let’s Measure How Much There is a serious threat posed by bots that try to manipulate opinions in social networks. In “Assessing the Impact of Bots on Social Networks,” Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, David Scott Hunter, Zakaria el Hjouiji, and Tauhid Zaman present a new set of operational capabilities to detect ...
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Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2019 Social bots have been around for over a decade since 2008. Social bots are capable of swaying political opinion, spreading false information, and recruiting for terrorist organizations. Social bots use various sophisticated techniques by adopting emotions, sympathy following, synchronous deletions, and profile molting.
Abdullah Mueen +2 more
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Measuring Bot and Human Behavioral Dynamics
Frontiers in Physics, 2020 Bots, social media accounts controlled by software rather than by humans, have recently been under the spotlight for their association with various forms of online manipulation. To date, much work has focused on social bot detection, but little attention
Iacopo Pozzana +2 more
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Bot Electioneering Volume: Visualizing Social Bot Activity During Elections [PDF]
Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019 It has been widely recognized that automated bots may have a significant impact on the outcomes of national events. It is important to raise public awareness about the threat of bots on social media during these important events, such as the 2018 US midterm election.
Kai-Cheng Yang +2 more
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