论文标题
沿机器人孔：从Twitter上对机器人活动进行的1年分析的可行见解
Down the bot hole: actionable insights from a 1-year analysis of bots activity on Twitter
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论文摘要
如今，社交媒体代表了有说服力的工具，这些工具已被逐渐武器化，以影响人们的信念，传播操纵性叙事以及沿不同派系的播种冲突。软件控制的帐户（即机器人）是与操纵运动相关的主要参与者之一，尤其是在政治背景下。揭示机器人活动背后的策略对于检测和遏制此类运动至关重要。在本文中，我们在2018年美国中期选举的前进中对Twitter上的机器人活动进行了长期（一年）分析。我们根据其性质（机器人与人类）和在线讨论中的参与来确定不同类别的帐户，并且我们观察到，过度活跃的机器人在传播阴谋叙事的传播中起着关键作用，同时自从选举前一年以来就占据了政治辩论。我们的分析在即将举行的美国2020年总统大选的范围内，揭示了人们对人类对机器人的敏感性的令人震惊的发现和可有助于遏制协调运动的可行见解。
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 year) analysis of bots activity on Twitter in the run-up to the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections. We identify different classes of accounts based on their nature (bot vs. human) and engagement within the online discussion and we observe that hyperactive bots played a pivotal role in the dissemination of conspiratorial narratives, while dominating the political debate since the year before the election. Our analysis, on the horizon of the upcoming U.S. 2020 Presidential Election, reveals both alarming findings of humans' susceptibility to bots and actionable insights that can contribute to curbing coordinated campaigns.
