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The rise of social bots

Emilio Ferrara,Onur Varol,2 Authors,A. Flammini

2014 · DOI: 10.1145/2818717
Communications of the ACM · 1,999 Citations

TLDR

Today's social bots are sophisticated and sometimes menacing, and their presence can endanger online ecosystems as well as society.

Abstract

Today's social bots are sophisticated and sometimes menacing. Indeed, their presence can endanger online ecosystems as well as our society.