Bots as Active News Promoters: A Digital Analysis of COVID-19 Tweets
In this study, we examined the activities of automated social media accounts or bots that tweet or retweet referencing #COVID-19 and #COVID19. From a total sample of over 50 million tweets, we used a mixed method to extract more than 185,000 messages posted by 127 bots. Our findings show that the ma...
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MDPI AG
2020-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/11/10/461 |