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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…
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…