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Bots & coordinated campaignsDetection methods
The Rise of Social BotsSocial bots—automated software agents in social media—are increasingly sophisticated and pose real threats including misinformation spread, trend manipulation, and election interference. This paper characterizes modern bot behavior, surveys detection challenges, and proposes a taxonomy of detection approaches: graph-based methods…
Platforms, policy & societyPsychology & interventions
In Related News, That Was Wrong: The Correction of Misinformation Through Related Stories Functionality in Social MediaThis study tests whether Facebook's "related stories" feature can correct misinformation by exposing users to debunking information. Two experiments (students and Mechanical Turk workers) examined vaccine-autism and GMO-illness misperceptions.