Neutral bots probe political bias on social media

Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends strongly on the political leaning of early Twitter c...

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Autores principales: Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8e1dad961559419599c3fff50e7f2abf2021-12-02T15:15:14ZNeutral bots probe political bias on social media10.1038/s41467-021-25738-62041-1723https://doaj.org/article/8e1dad961559419599c3fff50e7f2abf2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25738-6https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends strongly on the political leaning of early Twitter connections.Wen ChenDiogo PachecoKai-Cheng YangFilippo MenczerNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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Filippo Menczer
Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
description Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends strongly on the political leaning of early Twitter connections.
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author Wen Chen
Diogo Pacheco
Kai-Cheng Yang
Filippo Menczer
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Diogo Pacheco
Kai-Cheng Yang
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title Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
title_short Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
title_full Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
title_fullStr Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
title_full_unstemmed Neutral bots probe political bias on social media
title_sort neutral bots probe political bias on social media
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