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Social Politics: Agenda Setting and Political Communication on Social Media
Xinxin Yang, Bo-Chiuan Chen, Mrinmoy Maity +1
Social media play an increasingly important role in political communication. Various studies investigated how individuals adopt social media for political discussion, to share thei…
Predicting online extremism, content adopters, and interaction reciprocity
Emilio Ferrara, Wen-Qiang Wang, Onur Varol +2
We present a machine learning framework that leverages a mixture of metadata, network, and temporal features to detect extremist users, and predict content adopters and interaction…
Evidence of Online Performance Deterioration in User Sessions on Reddit
Philipp Singer, Emilio Ferrara, Farshad Kooti +2
This article presents evidence of performance deterioration in online user sessions quantified by studying a massive dataset containing over 55 million comments posted on Reddit in…
BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots
Clayton A. Davis, Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara +2
While most online social media accounts are controlled by humans, these platforms also host automated agents called social bots or sybil accounts. Recent literature reported on cas…
The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge
V. S. Subrahmanian, Amos Azaria, Skylar Durst +18
A number of organizations ranging from terrorist groups such as ISIS to politicians and nation states reportedly conduct explicit campaigns to influence opinion on social media, po…