Twitter bot detection has become an increasingly important task to combat misinformation,
facilitate social media moderation, and preserve the integrity of the online discourse. State-of …

This paper studies information diffusion in social media and the potential role of bots in
influencing public opinions. Using Twitter data on the 2016 EU Referendum (“Brexit”) and …

The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University
of Oxford, has researched the use of social media for public opinion manipulation. The team …

Social media data is widely analyzed in computational social science. Twitter, one of the
largest social media platforms, is used for research, journalism, business, and government …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when individuals were confronted with social distancing,
social media served as a significant platform for expressing feelings and seeking emotional …

ABSTRACT A 2016 review of literature about automation, algorithms and politics identified
China as the foremost area in which further research was needed because of the size of its …

Do bots have the capacity to influence the flow of political information over social media?
This working paper answers this question through two methodological avenues: A) a …

US voters shared large volumes of polarizing political news and information in the form of
links to content from Russian, WikiLeaks and junk news sources. Was this low quality …

Since the 2016 US Presidential election, social media abuse has been eliciting massive
concern in the academic community and beyond. Preventing and limiting the malicious …

Veracity assessment of news and social bot detection have become two of the most pressing
issues for social media platforms, yet current gold-standard data are limited. This paper …