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Jul 22, 2020
Foreign manipulation campaigns on social media can be spotted by looking at clues in the timing and length of posts and the URLs they contain. Scientists focused on troll posts made on Twitter between December 2015 and December 2018 and on Reddit between July 2015 and December 2016.
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Jul 12, 2020
Our itch to share helps spread Covid-19 misinformation. When people are consuming news on social media, their inclination to share that news with others interferes with their ability to assess its accuracy, according to a new study
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Feb 12, 2020
Prebunking: Fake news recognition improved among 5000 people from Germany, Greece, Poland, and Sweden after playing a game called Bad News, which exposes "people to weakened doses of misinformation."
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Nov 25, 2019
According to a new report released Monday in PNAS, Russian "troll" accounts don't actually cause Americans to change their politics, at least when it comes to Twitter users. Researchers suggest this is likely because people who interact with these accounts most are already highly polarized.
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Aug 06, 2019
Feral hogs, which reproduce exponentially, cause millions of dollars of damage to cropland and property each year in the United States. A new study in PLOS Biology suggests that the same methods used to keep carnivores away from livestock could help protect against the threat posed by feral hogs.
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Jun 12, 2019
Study suggests that scientists who participated as hosts for Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions on the r/science subreddit generally had positive experiences and "are interested in continuing to use this platform as a tool for public engagement".
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