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Why do Social Media Corporations (SMCs) engage in state-linked information operations? Social media can significantly influence the global political landscape, allowing governments and other political entities to engage in concerted information opera
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02095
Autor:
Yang, Kai-Cheng, Varol, Onur, Nwala, Alexander C., Sayyadiharikandeh, Mohsen, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo
While social media are a key source of data for computational social science, their ease of manipulation by malicious actors threatens the integrity of online information exchanges and their analysis. In this Chapter, we focus on malicious social bot
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17423
Autor:
Zouzou, Yasser, Varol, Onur
Automated social media accounts, known as bots, are increasingly recognized as key tools for manipulative online activities. These activities can stem from coordination among several accounts and these automated campaigns can manipulate social networ
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20407
References, the mechanism scientists rely on to signal previous knowledge, lately have turned into widely used and misused measures of scientific impact. Yet, when a discovery becomes common knowledge, citations suffer from obliteration by incorporat
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16181
Autor:
Pfeffer, Juergen, Matter, Daniel, Jaidka, Kokil, Varol, Onur, Mashhadi, Afra, Lasser, Jana, Assenmacher, Dennis, Wu, Siqi, Yang, Diyi, Brantner, Cornelia, Romero, Daniel M., Otterbacher, Jahna, Schwemmer, Carsten, Joseph, Kenneth, Garcia, David, Morstatter, Fred
At the end of October 2022, Elon Musk concluded his acquisition of Twitter. In the weeks and months before that, several questions were publicly discussed that were not only of interest to the platform's future buyers, but also of high relevance to t
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11429
Autor:
Najafi, Ali, Mugurtay, Nihat, Demirci, Ege, Demirkiran, Serhat, Karadeniz, Huseyin Alper, Varol, Onur
In the context of Turkey's upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections ("se\c{c}im" in Turkish), social media is playing an important role in shaping public debate. The increasing engagement of citizens on social media platforms has led to the
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13121
Autor:
Varol, Onur
Bots, simply defined as accounts controlled by automation, can be used as a weapon for online manipulation and pose a threat to the health of platforms. Researchers have studied online platforms to detect, estimate, and characterize bot accounts. Con
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10006
Autor:
Seckin, Ozgur Can, Varol, Onur
Current practices of quantifying performance by productivity leads serious concerns for psychological well-being of doctoral students and influence of research environment is often neglected in research evaluations. Acknowledgements in dissertations
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03430
It is well known that networks generated by common mechanisms such as preferential attachment and homophily can disadvantage the minority group by limiting their ability to establish links with the majority group. This has the effect of limiting mino
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02263
Autor:
Singh, Karandeep, Lima, Gabriel, Cha, Meeyoung, Cha, Chiyoung, Kulshrestha, Juhi, Ahn, Yong-Yeol, Varol, Onur
The COVID-19 pandemic has been damaging to the lives of people all around the world. Accompanied by the pandemic is an infodemic, an abundant and uncontrolled spreading of potentially harmful misinformation. The infodemic may severely change the pand
Externí odkaz:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10864