论文标题
Twitter机器人填充了哪些类型的Covid-19阴谋？
What Types of COVID-19 Conspiracies are Populated by Twitter Bots?
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论文摘要
由于人们由于遏制措施解决了新颖的冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行，因此人们离开了物理公共空间，在线平台成为了解社会讨论的更为突出的工具。研究社交媒体可以提供信息，以评估我们如何共同应对这一前所未有的全球危机。但是，社交媒体平台还包括机器人，自动帐户，这些帐户可以以牺牲他人为代价来扩大某些讨论的主题。在本文中，我们研究了4330万英语关于Covid-19的推文，并提供了使用机器人来促进美国政治阴谋的早期证据，与关注公共卫生问题的人类形成鲜明对比。
With people moving out of physical public spaces due to containment measures to tackle the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, online platforms become even more prominent tools to understand social discussion. Studying social media can be informative to assess how we are collectively coping with this unprecedented global crisis. However, social media platforms are also populated by bots, automated accounts that can amplify certain topics of discussion at the expense of others. In this paper, we study 43.3M English tweets about COVID-19 and provide early evidence of the use of bots to promote political conspiracies in the United States, in stark contrast with humans who focus on public health concerns.
