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Bots are often identified on social media due to their behavior. How easily are they identified, however, when they are dormant and exhibit no measurable behavior at all, except for […]
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Social networks have become the main platforms for information dissemination. Nevertheless, due to the increasing number of users, social media platforms tend to be highly vulnerable to the propagation of […]
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Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, has become one of the most important channels for information dissemination. However, these social media platforms are often misused to spread rumors, which […]
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Online discussions often derail into toxic exchanges between participants. Recent efforts mostly focused on detecting antisocial behavior after the fact, by analyzing single comments in isolation. To provide more timely […]
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Facebook’s News section, which launches Friday, is a big deal for newspapers, because Facebook is finally going to start paying them for their work. It is also an interesting, tacit […]
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Matteo Renzi, Italy’s former prime minister and founder of the new Italia Viva party, sits in an opulent-looking office, face to the camera. An oil painting hangs to one side […]
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YouTube is the biggest social media platform in the country, and, perhaps, the most misunderstood. Over the past few years, the Google-owned platform has become a media powerhouse where political […]
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Current machine learning models aren’t yet up to the task of distinguishing false news reports, two new papers by MIT researchers show. The big picture: After different researchers showed that […]
