The role of bot squads in the political propaganda on Twitter
| Autor: | Fabio Saracco, Guido Caldarelli, Rocco De Nicola, Fabio Del Vigna, Marinella Petrocchi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
immigration politics Fact checking General Physics and Astronomy lcsh:Astrophysics 02 engineering and technology 03 medical and health sciences Politics 020204 information systems lcsh:QB460-466 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Social media Information exchange 030304 developmental biology Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) 0303 health sciences social bots Computer Science - Social and Information Networks Advertising Complex network propaganda lcsh:QC1-999 Settore FIS/02 - Fisica Teorica Modelli e Metodi Matematici Business lcsh:Physics |
| Zdroj: | Communications Physics, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2020) Communications physics 3 (2020). doi:10.1038/s42005-020-0340-4 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:G. Caldarelli (1)(3)(4); R. De Nicola (1); F. Del Vigna (1); M. Petrocchi (1)(2); F. Saracco (1)/titolo:The role of bot squads in the political propaganda on Twitter/doi:10.1038%2Fs42005-020-0340-4/rivista:Communications physics/anno:2020/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume:3 |
| ISSN: | 2399-3650 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s42005-020-0340-4 |
| Popis: | Social Media are nowadays the privileged channel for information spreading and news checking. Unexpectedly for most of the users, automated accounts, also known as social bots, contribute more and more to this process of news spreading. Using Twitter as a benchmark, we consider the traffic exchanged, over one month of observation, on a specific topic, namely the migration flux from Northern Africa to Italy. We measure the significant traffic of tweets only, by implementing an entropy-based null model that discounts the activity of users and the virality of tweets. Results show that social bots play a central role in the exchange of significant content. Indeed, not only the strongest hubs have a number of bots among their followers higher than expected, but furthermore a group of them, that can be assigned to the same political tendency, share a common set of bots as followers. The retwitting activity of such automated accounts amplifies the presence on the platform of the hubs' messages. Under Submission |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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