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Research on social bots aims at advancing knowledge and providing solutions to one of the most debated forms of online manipulation.
Avoiding overfitting of decision trees
Max Bramer · 2007
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The unreasonable effectiveness of data
Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira · 2009
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Socialbots: Voices from the fronts
Tim Hwang, Ian Pearce, and Max Nanis · 2012
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Empirical evaluation and new design for fighting evolving Twitter spammers
Chao Yang, Robert Harkreader, and Guofei Gu · 2013
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Uncovering social network sybils in the wild
Zhi Yang, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Tingting Gao, Ben Y Zhao, and Yafei Dai · 2014
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Dissecting a social botnet: Growth, content and influence in Twitter
Norah Abokhodair, Daisy Yoo, and David W McDonald · 2015
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Fame for sale: Efficient detection of fake Twitter followers
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, and Maurizio Tesconi · 2015
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News Bots: Automating news and information dissemination on Twitter
Tetyana Lokot and Nicholas Diakopoulos · 2016
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The rise of social botnets: Attacks and countermeasures
Jinxue Zhang, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Guanhua Yan · 2016
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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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Fake news and ideological polarization: Filter bubbles and selective exposure on social media
Dominic Spohr · 2017
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Online human-bot interactions: Detection, estimation, and characterization
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton Davis, Filippo Menczer, and Alessandro Flammini · 2017
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Could social bots pose a threat to public health?
Jon-Patrick Allem and Emilio Ferrara · 2018
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LOBO: Evaluation of generalization deficiencies in Twitter bot classifiers
Juan Echeverría, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Gianluca Stringhini, and Shi Zhou · 2018
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Changing perspectives: Is it sufficient to detect social bots?
Christian Grimme, Dennis Assenmacher, and Lena Adam · 2018
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The science of fake news
David MJ Lazer, Matthew A Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J Berinsky, Kelly M Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David Rothschild, et al · 2018
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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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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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The spread of true and false news online
Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral · 2018
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Truth is what happens to news: On journalism, fake news, and post-truth
Silvio Waisbord · 2018
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How relevant is the Turing test in the age of sophisbots?
Dan Boneh, Andrew J Grotto, Patrick McDaniel, and Nicolas Papernot · 2019
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Regulating bot speech
Madeline Lamo and Ryan Calo · 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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The misinformation machine
Derek Ruths · 2019
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Disinformation’s spread: Bots, trolls and all of us
Kate Starbird · 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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Demystifying social bots: On the intelligence of automated social media actors
Dennis Assenmacher, Lena Clever, Lena Frischlich, Thorsten Quandt, Heike Trautmann, and Christian Grimme · 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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A decade of social bot detection
Stefano Cresci · 2020
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Emergent properties, models and laws of behavioral similarities within groups of Twitter users
Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, and Maurizio Tesconi · 2020
Identification and characterization of misinformation superspreaders on social media
Matthew R DeVerna, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco, John Bryden, and Filippo Menczer · 2022
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Twitter spam and false accounts prevalence, detection, and characterization: A survey
Emilio Ferrara · 2022
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Investigating the validity of Botometer-based social bot studies
Florian Gallwitz and Michael Kreil · 2022
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New Automation for social bots: From trivial behavior to AI-powered communication
Christian Grimme, Janina Pohl, Stefano Cresci, Ralf Lüling, and Mike Preuss · 2022
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Trends of research productivity across author gender and research fields: A multidisciplinary and multi-country observational study
Milad Haghani, Alireza Abbasi, Clara C Zwack, Zahra Shahhoseini, and Nick Haslam · 2022
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Unpacking the social media bot: A typology to guide research and policy
Robert Gorwa and Douglas Guilbeault · 2020
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Bots in social and interaction networks: Detection and impact estimation
Marcelo Mendoza, Maurizio Tesconi, and Stefano Cresci · 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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The false positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research
Adrian Rauchfleisch and Jonas Kaiser · 2020
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Bot or not? The facts about platform manipulation on Twitter
Yoel Roth and Nick Pickles · 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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Investigating the difference between trolls, social bots, and humans on Twitter
Michele Mazza, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, and Maurizio Tesconi · 2022
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Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal
Francesco Pierri, Brea Perry, Matthew R. DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, and John Bryden · 2022
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Detecting inorganic financial campaigns on Twitter
Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, and Stefano Cresci · 2022
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Botometer 101: social bot practicum for computational social scientists
Kai-Cheng Yang, Emilio Ferrara, and Filippo Menczer · 2022
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Misinformation on misinformation: Conceptual and methodological challenges
Sacha Altay, Manon Berriche, and Alberto Acerbi · 2023
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LLD: A low latency detection solution to thwart cryptocurrency pump & dumps
Ahmad Bello, Jens Schneider, and Roberto Di Pietro · 2023
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Social bot detection in the age of ChatGPT: Challenges and opportunities
Emilio Ferrara · 2023
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Simplistic collection and labeling practices limit the utility of benchmark datasets for Twitter bot detection
Chris Hays, Zachary Schutzman, Manish Raghavan, Erin Walk, and Philipp Zimmer · 2023
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BotPercent: Estimating Twitter bot populations from groups to crowds
Zhaoxuan Tan, Shangbin Feng, Melanie Sclar, Herun Wan, Minnan Luo, Yejin Choi, and Yulia Tsvetkov · 2023
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More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023—a new record
Richard Van Noorden · 2023
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Should we agree to disagree about Twitter’s bot problem?
Onur Varol · 2023
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Exposure to social bots amplifies perceptual biases and regulation propensity
H.Y. Yan, Shanahan Yang, KC., J., et al · 2023
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Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet
Kai-Cheng Yang and Filippo Menczer · 2023
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Hadi Askari, Anshuman Chhabra, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Michael Heseltine, and Magdalena Wojcieszak · 2024
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Enabling research with publicly accessible platform data: Early DSA compliance issues and suggestions for improvement
Julian Jaursch, Jakob Ohme, and Ulrike Klinger · 2024
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Detection and characterization of coordinated online behavior: A survey
Lorenzo Mannocci, Michele Mazza, Anna Monreale, Maurizio Tesconi, and Stefano Cresci · 2024
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Mechanisms driving online vaccine debate during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ozgur Can Seckin, Aybuke Atalay, Ege Otenen, Umut Duygu, and Onur Varol · 2024
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Characteristics and prevalence of fake social media profiles with AI-generated faces
Kai-Cheng Yang, Danishjeet Singh, and Filippo Menczer · 2024
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