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In this highly cited article, the authors present a review of research on social bots, including machine learning algorithms to detect inauthentic automated accounts and the harm that can be done by malicious or deceptive social bots. For example, they have used to amplify the spread of misinformation during elections in several countries.
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This page is a summary of: The rise of social bots, Communications of the ACM, June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/2818717.
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