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An online social network (OSN) is a social structure made up of a set of users that are interested to communicate with each other in an online environment in order […]
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Recently, all major search engines introduced a new feature: real-time search results, embedded in the first page of organic search results. The content appearing in these results is pulled within […]
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Recently, studies on the characterization and detection of social bots were published at an impressive rate. By looking back at over ten years of research and experimentation on social bots […]
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It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure.
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We develop a warped correlation finder to identify correlated user accounts in social media websites such as Twitter. The key observation is that humans cannot be highly synchronous for a […]
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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. […]
