Demystifying Social Bots: On the Intelligence of Automated Social Media Actors
Recently, social bots , (semi-) automatized accounts in social media, gained global attention in the context of public opinion manipulation. Dystopian scenarios like the malicious amplification of topics, the spreading of disinformation, and the manipulation of elections through “opinion machines” c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120939264 |