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Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
Nature Communications, 2021 Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends ...
Wen Chen +3 more
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Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021 We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vulnerability to online misinformation by studying news sharing behavior on Twitter.
Dimitar Nikolov +2 more
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Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021 We analyze the spread of Donald Trump’s tweets that were flagged by Twitter using two intervention strategies—attaching a warning label and blocking engagement with the tweet entirely.
Zeve Sanderson +4 more
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A language framework for modeling social media account behavior
EPJ Data Science, 2023 Malicious actors exploit social media to inflate stock prices, sway elections, spread misinformation, and sow discord. To these ends, they employ tactics that include the use of inauthentic accounts and campaigns. Methods to detect these abuses currently
Alexander C. Nwala +2 more
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Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal
Scientific Reports, 2022 Widespread uptake of vaccines is necessary to achieve herd immunity. However, uptake rates have varied across U.S. states during the first six months of the COVID-19 vaccination program.
Francesco Pierri +6 more
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Social Media and Social Media Marketing
, 2023 Social media and social media marketing are sometimes used interchangeably, but two indeed are different. The purpose of this research paper is to revisit the literature on both concepts and correlates them in technical terminologies. We have studied the literature available on Social media first and identified the basic functionalities of it. Then the
Akash Jugal +3 more
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Social media and democracy [PDF]
El Profesional de la Información, 2018 Slowly approaching the second quarter of the 21st century, research on social media and its effects over democracy has quickly permeated across various fields in social sciences, particularly political communication. Based on accumulated evidence in this strand of literature, this paper briefly summarizes several established research areas.
de Zúñiga, Homero Gil +2 more
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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems, 2023 Do people trust social media? If so, why, in what contexts, and how does that trust impact their lives? Researchers, companies, and journalists alike have increasingly investigated these questions, which are fundamental to understanding social media interactions and their implications for society.
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CrimRxiv, 2023 Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and monetize human attention. One means by which individuals and groups can capture attention and drive engagement on these platforms is by sharing morally and emotionally evocative ...
Jay Joseph Van Bavel +4 more
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Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?
EPJ Data Science, 2022 News and social media play an important role in public political discourse. It is not clear what quantifiable relationships public discussions of politics have with official discourse within legislative bodies. In this study we present an analysis of how
John Bollenbacher +2 more
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