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A method to evaluate the reliability of social media data for social network analysis
Derek Weber, Mehwish Nasim, Lewis Mitchell +1
To study the effects of Online Social Network (OSN) activity on real-world offline events, researchers need access to OSN data, the reliability of which has particular implications…
cs.SI2020★ 27 cited
Who's in the Gang? Revealing Coordinating Communities in Social Media
Derek Weber, Frank Neumann
Political astroturfing and organised trolling are online malicious behaviours with significant real-world effects. Common approaches examining these phenomena focus on broad campai…
cs.SI2020★ 20 cited
#ArsonEmergency and Australia's "Black Summer": Polarisation and misinformation on social media
Derek Weber, Mehwish Nasim, Lucia Falzon +1
During the summer of 2019-20, while Australia suffered unprecedented bushfires across the country, false narratives regarding arson and limited backburning spread quickly on Twitte…