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Please join Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics to discuss our recently released book on Social Media and Democracy: The State of […]
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As social media has permeated large parts of the population it simultaneously has become a way to reach these masses e.g. with political messages. One way to efficiently reach this […]
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This exploratory study examines the strategies of social bots on Twitter that were retweeted following a mass shooting event. Using a case study method to frame our work, we collected […]
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The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that advertisers can target—or […]
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As of February 2019, VKontakte accounted for the largest volume of a monthly audience in Russia, measured at over 38 million users.
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In recent years, botnet becomes one of the biggest challenges that online social networks are facing. Due to the sudden increase in the botnet, the detection of bots become very […]
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Social botnets have become an important phenomenon on social media. There are many ways in which social bots can disrupt or influence online discourse, such as, spam hashtags, scam twitter […]
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With the significant increase in the volume, velocity, and variety of user data (e.g., user-generated data) in online social networks, there have been attempted to design new ways of collecting […]
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Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective tools for executing spam […]
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Online social networks (OSNs) such as Twitter and Facebook constitute an open space for developers to create sophisticated machines that imitate human users by automating their social network activities. The […]
