Political astroturfing on twitter: how to coordinate a disinformation campaign... Features that best distinguish these accounts from regular users in contemporaneously collected Twitter data are traces left by coordination among astroturfing agents, instead of the individual account characteristics typically used in related approaches such as social bot detection....
Red bots do it better: comparative analysis of social bot partisan behavior... In this work, we leverage Twitter to study the discourse during the 2018 US midterm elections and analyze social bot activity and interactions with humans....
Better safe than sorry: an adversarial approach to improve social bot detection... Here, we manipulate generations of Twittersocial bots, to obtain - and study - their possible future evolutions, with theaim of eventually deriving more effective detection techniques....
Social bot in social media: detections and impacts of social bot on twitter usersA social bot is a computer algorithm that automatically produces content and interacts with humans on social media, trying to emulate and possibly alter their behavior....
