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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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Social media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this chapter you will: 1) understand the dynamics of social media-based communities, their composition and behaviours 2) learn to conduct a social media audit including competitor analysis 3) recognise the importance of a blog as a centre of digital presence development 4) use amplification strategies to develop brand presence explore the concept of
Fenton, Alex   +2 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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Social Media, Social Comment and the Moralising Media-Scape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter explores food culture in social media. It focuses in particular on the affordances offered by social media platforms to create, develop and negotiate individual digital identities, which mediate personal, social and professional relationships with and investment in food, nurture and wellbeing.
Drylie Carey, Lindsey   +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
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Social Media [PDF]

open access: yesAAOHN Journal, 2010
Various social media sites, including Facebook, have become part of everyday life. They are used by individuals of all ages and are even favored by companies and organizations as a promotional mechanism. Professional organizations, including the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc., would be remiss to overlook the potential of ...
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