Twitter机器人会制造哪些类型的COVID-19阴谋？
What Types of COVID-19 Conspiracies are Populated by Twitter Bots?
摘要：
由于应对新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行的遏制措施，人们搬出了物理公共场所，在线平台成为了解社交讨论的更重要工具。研究社交媒体可以提供信息，以评估我们如何共同应对这场前所未有的全球危机。然而，社交媒体平台也充斥着机器人，自动账户可以放大某些讨论主题，而牺牲其他主题。在这篇论文中，我们研究了4330万条关于COVID-19的英文推文，并提供了在美国使用机器人推动政治阴谋的早期证据，这与关注公共卫生问题的人类形成了鲜明对比。
英文摘要：
With people moving out of physical public spaces due to containment measures to tackle the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, online platforms become even more prominent tools to understand social discussion. Studying social media can be informative to assess how we are collectively coping with this unprecedented global crisis. However, social media platforms are also populated by bots, automated accounts that can amplify certain topics of discussion at the expense of others. In this paper, we study 43.3M English tweets about COVID-19 and provide early evidence of the use of bots to promote political conspiracies in the United States, in stark contrast with humans who focus on public health concerns.
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