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Social bots have become an important component of online social media.
Seven Months with the Devils: A Long-Term Study of Content Polluters on Twitter
Kyumin Lee, Brian David Eoff, and James Caverlee · 2011
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Social Media Bots Offer Phony Friends and Real Profit
Nick Bilton · 2014
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The rise of social bots
Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Clayton Davis, Filippo Menczer, and Alessandro Flammini · 2016
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Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion
Alessandro Bessi and Emilio Ferrara · 2016
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Debot: Twitter bot detection via warped correlation
Nikan Chavoshi, Hossein Hamooni, and Abdullah Mueen · 2016
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Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election
Emilio Ferrara · 2017
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Online human-bot interactions: Detection, estimation, and characterization
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton A Davis, Filippo Menczer, and Alessandro Flammini · 2017
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Discovery, retrieval, and analysis of the ‘star wars’ botnet in twitter
Juan Echeverria and Shi Zhou · 2017
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The paradigm-shift of social spambots: Evidence, theories, and tools for the arms race
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, and Maurizio Tesconi · 2017
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Of bots and humans (on Twitter)
Zafar Gilani, Reza Farahbakhsh, Gareth Tyson, Liang Wang, and Jon Crowcroft · 2017
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Discovery of the twitter bursty botnet
Juan Echeverria and Shi Zhou · 2017
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The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
Chengcheng Shao, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Onur Varol, Kai-Cheng Yang, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer · 2018
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The public accountability of social platforms: lessons from a study on bots and trolls in the Brexit campaign
Marco Bastos and Dan Mercea · 2018
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Collective Behavior of Social Bots Is Encoded in Their Temporal Twitter Activity
Andrej Duh, Marjan Slak Rupnik, and Dean Korošak · 2018
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Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory content in online social systems
Massimo Stella, Emilio Ferrara, and Manlio De Domenico · 2018
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Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate
David A. Broniatowski, Amelia M. Jamison, SiHua Qi, Lulwah AlKulaib, Tao Chen, Adrian Benton, Sandra C. Quinn, and Mark Dredze · 2018
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The Follower Factory
Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J. X. Dance, Rich Harris, and Mark Hansen · 2018
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The spread of true and false news online
Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral · 2018
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$FAKE: Evidence of Spam and Bot Activity in Stock Microblogs on Twitter
Stefano Cresci, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Regoli, Serena Tardelli, and Maurizio Tesconi · 2018
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The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News
Marco T. Bastos and Dan Mercea · 2019
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Social Bots in Election Campaigns: Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Implications
Tobias R. Keller and Ulrike Klinger · 2019
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Malicious Actors on Twitter: A Guide for Public Health Researchers
Amelia M. Jamison, David A. Broniatowski, and Sandra Crouse Quinn · 2019
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Examining Emergent Communities and Social Bots Within the Polarized Online Vaccination Debate in Twitter
Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross J. Schuchard, and Andrew T. Crooks · 2019
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Cashtag Piggybacking: Uncovering Spam and Bot Activity in Stock Microblogs on Twitter
Twitter Discourses on Climate Change: Exploring Topics and the Presence of Bots
Thomas Marlow, Sean Miller, and J. Timmons Roberts · 2020
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Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi, and Emilio Ferrara · 2020
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Social media bots and stock markets
Rui Fan, Oleksandr Talavera, and Vu Tran · 2020
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Political astroturfing on twitter: How to coordinate a disinformation campaign
Franziska B Keller, David Schoch, Sebastian Stier, and JungHwan Yang · 2020
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Journalists on twitter: self-branding, audiences, and involvement of bots
Onur Varol and Ismail Uluturk · 2020
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The role of bot squads in the political propaganda on Twitter
Guido Caldarelli, Rocco De Nicola, Fabio Del Vigna, Marinella Petrocchi, and Fabio Saracco · 2020
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Stefano Cresci, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Regoli, Serena Tardelli, and Maurizio Tesconi · 2019
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Hateful People or Hateful Bots? Detection and Characterization of Bots Spreading Religious Hatred in Arabic Social Media
Nuha Albadi, Maram Kurdi, and Shivakant Mishra · 2019
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Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Clayton A Davis, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer · 2019
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Machine behaviour
Iyad Rahwan, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, Nicholas A. Christakis, Iain D. Couzin, Matthew O. Jackson, Nicholas R. Jennings, Ece Kamar, Isabel M. Kloumann, Hugo Larochelle, David Lazer, Richard McElreath, Alan Mislove, David C. Parkes, Alex ’Sandy’ Pentland, Margaret E. Roberts, Azim Shariff, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Michael Wellman · 2019
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Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election
Nir Grinberg, Kenneth Joseph, Lisa Friedland, Briony Swire-Thompson, and David Lazer · 2019
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Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election
Alexandre Bovet and Hernán A. Makse · 2019
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RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter
Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti, Walter Quattrociocchi, and Maurizio Tesconi · 2019
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Social scientists battle bots to glean insights from online chatter
Heidi Ledford · 2020
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Detection of novel social bots by ensembles of specialized classifiers
Mohsen Sayyadiharikandeh, Onur Varol, Kai-Cheng Yang, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer · 2020
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Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Pik-Mai Hui, and Filippo Menczer · 2020
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Dataset for paper: The false positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research
Adrian Rauchfleisch and Jonas Kaiser · 2020
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The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research
Adrian Rauchfleisch and Jonas Kaiser · 2020
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Social media, sentiment and public opinions: Evidence from #Brexit and #USElection
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Tho Pham, and Oleksandr Talavera · 2021
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Bots and online climate discourses: Twitter discourse on President Trump’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
Thomas Marlow, Sean Miller, and J. Timmons Roberts · 2021
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Social bots’ role in climate change discussion on Twitter: Measuring standpoints, topics, and interaction strategies
Chang-Feng Chen, Wen Shi, Jing Yang, and Hao-Huan Fu · 2021
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Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang, and Filippo Menczer · 2021
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Bot, or not? Comparing three methods for detecting social bots in five political discourses
Franziska Martini, Paul Samula, Tobias R Keller, and Ulrike Klinger · 2021
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Social botomics: A systematic ensemble ml approach for explainable and multi-class bot detection
Ilias Dimitriadis, Konstantinos Georgiou, and Athena Vakali · 2021
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The manufacture of political echo chambers by follow train abuse on twitter
Christopher Torres-Lugo, Kai-Cheng Yang, and Filippo Menczer · 2022
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