Bots

What makes a bot a bot? Exploring benign automation on Twitter
We present a study on bot detection and its interpretation by assessing the different types of automation that one of the most popular …
Nov 7, 2019 4:30 PM — 4:50 PM Umspannwerk Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Felix Victor Münch, Cornelius Puschmann, Ben Thies, Axel Bruns
What makes a bot a bot? Exploring benign automation on Twitter
Bots Among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network
Social bots are undermining trust in social media. They spread low-credibility content (Shao et al., 2018), so-called fake news …
Oct 5, 2019 9:00 AM — 9:30 AM Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Felix Victor Münch, Cornelius Puschmann, Ben Thies, Axel Bruns
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Bots Among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network
Bots Among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network
Social bots are undermining trust in social media. They spread low-credibility content, fake news, and spam. However, most research is …
Felix Victor Münch, Cornelius Puschmann, Ben Thies, Axel Bruns
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