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The topic of fake and satire news has drawn attention from both the public and the academic communities. Such misinformation has the potential for extremely negative impacts on individuals and […]
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This final chapter borrows the concept of force of falsity from the famous Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco to describe how manipulated information remains visible and accessible despite efforts […]
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The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. Obermeyer et al. find evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that Black patients assigned […]
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The arm race between spambots and spambot-detectors is made of several cycles (or generations): a new wave of spambots is created (and new spam is spread), new spambot filters are […]
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Misinformation is one of the most critical issues of recent years, which does harm to democracy, economics, and society. Despite all the attempts, traditional techniques are not powerful enough to […]
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Political bots are social media algorithms that impersonate political actors and interact with other users, aiming to influence public opinion. This study examines perceptions of bots with partisan personas by […]
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We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe, pronounced awe•some) at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) under the direction of Filippo Menczer. The research […]
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Over the long Memorial Day weekend, a Twitter storm blew in about bots, those little automatic programs that talk to us in the digital dimension as if they were human. […]
