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Misinformation and Propaganda in Cyberspace
Since the early days of the discipline, computer scientists have always been interested in developing environments that exhibit well-understood and predictable behavior. If a computer system were to...
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I’m Not a Real Activist, But I Play One on the Internet
Long considered the sketchy backwater of online advertising and malware (though effective!), the technology powering spambots has, slowly and steadily, continued to advance to be more believable, less...
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When the News Comes from Political Tweetbots
In July 2010, the blogger Andrew Breitbart wrote a long blog post with a short video excerpt from a speech by Shirley Sherrod. The post went viral and Ms. Sherrod was forced to resign from her U.S....
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Propaganda in Bahrain, Syria
During the uprisings that swept Tunisia and Egypt in 2011, digital activists’ main adversary were their governments which, in the case of the former, censored scores of websites and conducted...
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