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The identification of bots is an important and complicated task. The bot classifier Botometer was successfully introduced as a way to estimate the number of bots in a given list […]
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Left-leaning Web users took link bombing to a new level by tweaking search results to turn up news articles detailing a negative aspect of Republican candidates.
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“Bots” — automated social media accounts which pose as real people — have a huge presence on platforms such as Twitter. They number in the millions; individual networks can number […]
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Based on a sample of almost 20,000 Twitter accounts, J.M. Berger and Jonathon Morgan conducted a study considering the demographics and social media activity of ISIS supporters around the world. […]
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Let’s face it: social media usage is a significant aspect of most of our lives. In fact, it’s estimated that more than 2.5 billion users around the world rely on […]
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So-called “robot” journalism represents a shift towards the automation of journalistic tasks related to news reporting, writing, curation, and even data analysis. In this paper, we consider the extension of […]
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Revelations that digital consultants to the Trump campaign misused the data of millions of Facebook users set off a furor on both sides of the Atlantic. This is how The […]
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The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accompanied by efforts to manipulate online conversations and opinions. Deceptive social bots—automated or semi-automated accounts designed to impersonate […]
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Voice-based assistants are becoming increasingly widespread all over the world. However, the performance of these assistants in the interaction with users of languages and accents of developing countries is not […]
