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Neutral bots probe political bias on social media

open access: yesNature 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

open access: yesHarvard 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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A language framework for modeling social media account behavior

open access: yesEPJ 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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Twitter flagged Donald Trump’s tweets with election misinformation: They continued to spread both on and off the platform

open access: yesHarvard 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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Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal

open access: yesScientific 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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Does United Kingdom parliamentary attention follow social media posts?

open access: yesEPJ 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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Tobacco control challenges in China: Big data analysis of online tobacco marketing information

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2020
Objective: To develop tobacco control strategies by analyzing online tobacco marketing information in China. Methods: Using web-crawler software, this study acquired 106,485 pieces of online tobacco marketing information published on 11 different ...
Xiuli Wang, Ying Xiong, Wenwen Zhao
doaj   +1 more source

Making design representations as catalysts for reflective making in a collaborative design research process.

open access: yesFORMakademisk, 2013
The role of making may seem self-evident in a design context. However, in developing an educational design research course at the [institute name], we experienced that when design and research are intertwined, students tend to lose their focus on making.
Jessica Schoffelen   +3 more
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The Impact of Social Media Activities on Brand Equity

open access: yesInformation, 2021
This study aims to investigate the impact of Social Media Activities on brand equity (brand awareness and brand image). A cross-sectional quantitative study has been conducted using a validated questionnaire distributed to a convenience sample of 362 ...
Ra’ed Masa’deh   +5 more
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