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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…
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…