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Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots
Kai-Cheng Yang, Onur Varol, Clayton A. Davis +3
The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accompanied by efforts to manipulate online conversations and opinions. Deceptive social bots -- automated or sem…
Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton A. Davis +2
Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated by autonomous entities known as social bots. In this work we present a framework to detect s…
On the influence of social bots in online protests. Preliminary findings of a Mexican case study
Pablo Suárez-Serrato, Margaret E. Roberts, Clayton A. Davis +1
Social bots can affect online communication among humans. We study this phenomenon by focusing on #YaMeCanse, the most active protest hashtag in the history of Twitter in Mexico. A…
Kinsey Reporter: Citizen Science for Sex Research
Clayton A Davis, Julia Heiman, Erick Janssen +3
Kinsey Reporter is a global mobile app to share, explore, and visualize anonymous data about sex. Reports are submitted via smartphone, then visualized on a website or downloaded f…
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 Rise of Social Bots
Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Clayton Davis +2
The Turing test aimed to recognize the behavior of a human from that of a computer algorithm. Such challenge is more relevant than ever in today's social media context, where limit…