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Down the bot hole: actionable insights from a 1-year analysis of bots activity on Twitter
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2020
arXiv
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Nowadays, social media represent persuasive tools that have been progressively weaponized to affect people's beliefs, spread manipulative narratives, and sow conflicts along divergent factions. Software-controlled accounts (i.e., bots) are one of the main actors associated with manipulation campaigns, especially in the political context. Uncovering the strategies behind bots' activities is of paramount importance to detect and curb such campaigns. In this paper, we present a long term (one
arXiv:2010.15820v1
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