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Characterization of Political Polarized Users Attacked by Language Toxicity on Twitter
Wentao Xu
Understanding the dynamics of language toxicity on social media is important for us to investigate the propagation of misinformation and the development of echo chambers for politi…
A multidisciplinary framework for deconstructing bots' pluripotency in dualistic antagonism
Wentao Xu, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Jianxun Chu +3
Anthropomorphic social bots are engineered to emulate human verbal communication and generate toxic or inflammatory content across social networking services (SNSs). Bot-disseminat…
Domain-based user embedding for competing events on social media
Wentao Xu, Kazutoshi Sasahara
Social divide and polarization have become significant societal issues. To understand the mechanisms behind these phenomena, social media analysis offers research opportunities in…
A network-based approach to QAnon user dynamics and topic diversity during the COVID-19 infodemic
Wentao Xu, Kazutoshi Sasahara
QAnon is an umbrella conspiracy theory that encompasses a wide spectrum of people. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped raise the QAnon conspiracy theory to a wide-spreading movement,…
Characterizing the roles of bots during the COVID-19 infodemic on Twitter
Wentao Xu, Kazutoshi Sasahara
An infodemic is an emerging phenomenon caused by an overabundance of information online. This proliferation of information makes it difficult for the public to distinguish trustwor…