Our world is now significantly influenced by social media because for many it appears more trustworthy than the old-style mass media with a print origin. Work like this is important because a reminder that transferring the message from newspaper proprietors to tech barons does not confer credibilit...
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Several experts have said that idea of scanning the network every second for fraudulent tweets and fake accounts is feasible or would not be that difficult. But without a hard and fast rule on if a bot is a good bot or a bad bot -- there's zero wiggle room for shutting down legitimate...
Social media interactions invariably include trolling, where disruptive or annoying comments are made online, and gender trolling is one aspect of trolling. Gender trolling in India has turned ugly, with mischievous and offensive tweets transforming into threats. However, far too little research has ex...
This protest bot creates fictional but realistic headlines from a dataset of 30 years of mass shooting activities and locations in the United States. It outputs an AP-news-style report heading alongside a generic National Rifle Association (NRA) epideictic response. For example, one @NRA_Tally ...
Information maneuvers on social media are the strategies used in the manipulation of the diffusion of information to steer mass thinking [59]. Several frameworks that have been conceptualized to characterize information maneuvers on social media space. The BEND framework measures narrative and network ma...
On top of this, we have analyzed the presence of automated accounts, by using the bot detection method described in the “Methods” Section. The incidence of bots in the validated network is about 2.5%, against almost the 7% of nodes in the original network. The number of loops, i.e.,...
others purporting to be organizations, according to the investigation.A New York Times report earlier this weekclaims that bots aren’t only driven during an election season, alleging that, after the school shooting in Florida that left 17 students dead, Twitter bots also mass-posted on gun ...
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In April 2023, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) – the nation’s largest mass-transit provider-- halted using Twitter after the platform was going to charge $500,000 a year to use their services. In May 2023, Twitter reversed its decision to charge government entities ...