Exposure to social bots amplifies perceptual biases and regulation propensity

Abstract Automated accounts on social media that impersonate real users, often called “social bots,” have received a great deal of attention from academia and the public. Here we present experiments designed to investigate public perceptions and policy preferences about social bots, in particular ho...

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Main Authors: Harry Yaojun Yan, Kai-Cheng Yang, James Shanahan, Filippo Menczer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46630-x