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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 […]
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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 […]
