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cs.CY2017★ 22 cited
Strategies and Influence of Social Bots in a 2017 German state election - A case study on Twitter
Florian Brachten, Stefan Stieglitz, Lennart Hofeditz +2
As social media has permeated large parts of the population it simultaneously has become a way to reach many people e.g. with political messages. One way to efficiently reach those…
cs.HC2017★ 108 cited
Do Social Bots Dream of Electric Sheep? A Categorisation of Social Media Bot Accounts
Stefan Stieglitz, Florian Brachten, Björn Ross +1
So-called 'social bots' have garnered a lot of attention lately. Previous research showed that they attempted to influence political events such as the Brexit referendum and the US…