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In this article, we review our study of 13 493 bot-like Twitter accounts that tweeted during the UK European Union membership referendum debate and disappeared from the platform after the ballot. […]
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This research focuses on bot detection through implementation of techniques such as traffic analysis, unsupervised machine learning, and similarity analysis between benign traffic data and bot traffic data. In this […]
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Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been particularly active on public policy issues, political crises, and elections. We collected data on […]
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Political campaigns are increasingly turning to digital advertising to reach voters. It is predicted that, during the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, 28% of political marketing spending will go to online […]
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Article discusses Google bombing, a group sport taking advantage of Web-indexing algorithms used by Google; perpetrators recruit accomplices to link from their Web sites to target site using specific anchor […]
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From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world […]
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Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today’s Web. Politicians, celebrities, revolutionists, and others use OSNs as a podium to deliver their message to millions of active […]
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The economic disruption of COVID-19 has been unprecedented in its swiftness, upsetting supply lines, temporarily closing retail stores and changing online customer behaviors. It has also dramatically increased unemployment overnight, […]
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We’re hiring a Research Engineer strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source and open data, transparency, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research […]
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Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content according to an analysis that will increase pressure on the social media giant to remove antisemitic content relating to the Nazi genocide. An […]
