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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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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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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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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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, 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
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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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Information Technology & People, 2019 PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to complement the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical evidence is based on ordinary least squares ...
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AAOHN 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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Argumentation in Social Media [PDF]
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2017 No abstract available.
Iryna Gurevych +2 more
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