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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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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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FORMakademisk, 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
Information, 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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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 The search for alternative knowledge, conspiracy theories, distrust of expertise and anti-science movements are gaining momentum and post-truth populism is speeding up on the back of fake news.
Hande Eslen-Ziya, Ezgi Pehlivanli
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The Shorter the Better? Effects of Privacy Policy Length on Online Privacy Decision-Making
Media and Communication, 2020 Privacy policies provide Internet users with the possibility to inform themselves about websites’ usage of their disclosed personal data. Strikingly, however, most people tend not to read privacy policies because they are long and cumbersome, indicating ...
Yannic Meier +2 more
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