Podcasts & Media
Tech Crunch Podcast: Technotopia
Faculty Profile: Emilio Ferrara from USC Viterbi on Vimeo.
Spotlight: How Emotions Spread On Twitter from USC Viterbi on Vimeo.
The Rise of Social Bots from CACM on Vimeo.
Press Coverage
- Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter’s many fake accounts – The Associated Press (republished in over a hundred other news sites)
- Musk wars with Twitter over his buyout deal on Twitter – Daily Herald
- Twitter May Be Poised to Become a Hellscape Just in Time for the Midterms – Slate
- Will AI turn the tide in midterm elections? – The American Bazaar
- Elon Musk announces content moderation council for Twitter – Mint
- Fusing communications with computer science to track down social media manipulators – USC News
- Why the polls were so far off in the 2020 election – Fast Company
- Spotting political indicators without the polls – Axios
- Study Considers a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors – The New York Times
- Were voters manipulated by QAnon a force behind Trump’s ‘red wave’ in 2020 election? – USA TODAY
- The next-generation bots interfering with the US election – Nature
- Twitter Bots Poised to Spread Disinformation Before Election – The New York Times
- Researchers voice concern over spread of disinformation on social media about US poll campaigns – The Week
- Twitter Bots Promote Right-Wing Conspiracies, Paper Shows – Defense One
- Twitter Beware: That QAnon Account May Be a Bot – National Interest
- Twitter bots poised to spread disinformation before election – Forbes India
- Twitter Bots Poised to Unfold Disinformation Earlier than Election – Latest News
- Researchers voice concern over spread of disinformation on social media about US poll campaigns – DevDiscourse
- Researchers voice concern over spread of disinformation on social media about US poll campaigns – Outlook
- Researchers voice concern over spread of disinformation on social media about US poll campaigns – India TV
- Disinformation within the 2020 Presidential Election – Think It Positive
- Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know – Snopes
- Study identifies thousands of Twitter bots amplifying conspiracy theories ahead of the U.S. elections – VentureBeat
- Watch out for this misinformation on election day – The World News
- USC study says bots and conspiracy theorists infest Twitter chatter around upcoming election – KNX Los Angeles (CBS Radio)
- Disinformation rules in buildup to US presidential elections – Oridessa Post
- Election 2020 chatter on Twitter busy with bots and conspiracy theorists – USC News
- How bots threaten to derail the 2020 U.S. elections – VentureBeat
- Social Media Used To Spread Coronavirus Disinformation, And Patient Groups Are Fighting Back – NPR
- Segregated communities of polarized Twitter users are shaping online conversations about COVID-19 – PsyPost
- Beware of Bots Amid Election Year and Coronavirus Pandemic – Reform Austin
- Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not? – The New York Times
- The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories – Nature
- AI can distinguish between bots and humans based on Twitter activity – New Scientist
- Laziness is sure sign it’s not a bot – The Times
- Bot or Not? AI looks at Twitter behavior to sort real accounts from fake – Digital Trends
- Laziness is the key human trait that tells us apart from artificially intelligent ‘bots’ on social media – Daily Mail
- Study reveals behavioral differences between bots and humans that could inform new machine learning algorithms – TechXplore
- Researchers develop AI-based system to detect Twitter bots – Gadgets Now
- Bot or not? A.I. looks at Twitter behavior to sort real accounts from fake – Brinkwire
- AI Can Distinguish Between Bots, Humans Based on Twitter Activity – Communications of the ACM
- What are the characteristics of human beings who have not been able to reproduce social media bots that continue to evolve like humans? – Gigazine
- AI study of Twitter bots reveals boredom is what separates us from machines – TNW
- What’s human and what’s not when we talk? – COSMOS
- Researchers train AI to spot difference between bots and human users on Twitter based on their activity patterns – Computing
- Tiredness could be ‘human signature’ used to detect bots on Twitter – E&T
- AI can spot a bear bot at 20 paces – Fudzilla
- Online Behavioral Signatures Aid Development of Bot Detection Software – Courthouse News Service
- Bot detector may now be able to see clear ‘human signature’ in tweets – SiliconRepublic
- Researchers train AI to detect Twitter bots – Indian Express Indulge
- Laziness is very important: it’s what makes us human, and what may help us stop online spam – India Times
- This AI can now detect Twitter bots: See how it works – India TV
- USC Researchers Release Public Coronavirus Twitter Set for Academics – USC
- How malicious Twitter bots evolve to evade detection – The Irish Times
- Twitter ‘Bots’ Becoming More ‘Human,’ Will Influence 2020 Presidential Election, New Research Study Says – Inquisitr
- As 2020 Election Nears, Twitter Bots Have Only Gotten Better at Seeming Human – AdWeek
- Social media bots becoming more human and difficult to detect, study shows – E&T
- Twitter Bots Are Becoming More Human-Like – DefenseOne
- Bots evolving to better mimic humans during elections – HelpNet Security
- Modern Politics: Social Media Bots Will Be Harder To Detect During 2020 Election – StudyFinds
- Fake Accounts On Social Media Now Able To Copy Human Behaviour – NewsGram
- Bots harder to discern from humans have multiplied in online ‘arms race’ – SiliconRepublic
- Get ready for more humanlike bots, better deep-fake videos and wall-to-wall disinformation in 2020 race – The Baltimore Sun
- Bots might prove harder to detect in 2020 elections – EurekAlert!
- Bots in the Twittersphere – PEW Research Center
- Social Media Bots Deceive E-cigarette Users – Scientific American
- Twitter bots were more active than previously known during the 2018 midterms – CNBC
- Majority of Twitter bots affecting US elections originated from Russia and Iran – Devdiscourse
- About 20% of election posts on Twitter last fall were ‘bots,’ study says – Breitbart
- Thousands of Twitter bots active during 2018 US mid-term elections – The Economic Times
- How Twitter bots get people to spread fake news – ScienceNews
- Study: It only takes a few seconds for bots to spread misinformation – ArsTecnica
- Bots actually target and pursue individual influencers – EurekAlert!
- The charge of the chatbots: how do you tell who’s human online? – The Guardian
- Facebook’s Secret Weapon for Fighting Election Interference: The Government – Bloomberg
- Surge in anonymous Asia Twitter accounts sparks bot fears – The Japan Times
- The endless game of cat and mouse with spammers – Eureka
- Fake news is about to get a lot worse. That will make it easier to violate human rights – The Washington Post
- The Big, Bad Bot Problem – The Ringer
- Twitter Cracks Down on Bot Abuse – How Stuff Works
- Conservatives amplified Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals in 2016 – Vox
- US conservatives spread tweets by Russian trolls over 30 times more often than liberals – MIT Tech Review
- How to Stop Russia From Wrecking Election 2018 – Daily Beast
- Twitter has been ignoring its fake account problem for years – Columbia Journalism Review
- Twitter’s huge bot problem is out of the bag – CNET
- Putin’s Pro-Trump Trolls Just Targeted Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller – Mother Jones
- Twitter urged firms to delete data during 2016 campaign – POLITICO
- Bot-hunting Twitter bot sniffs out bogus political tweets – TechCrunch
- This new Twitter account hunts for bots that push political opinions – Quartz
- Lies, statistics and Twitter – Millennium Post
- Social media bots are a real problem and California may regulate them – Medianama
- Watch: Five Ways the Internet Is Destroying Society – IEEE Electronics 360
- Ending fake news means changing how Wall Street values Facebook and Twitter – Quartz
- Trolls, bots and fake news: the mysterious world of social media manipulation – Newsweek
- Twitter Bots Distorted the 2016 Election—Including Many Likely From Russia – Mother Jones
- Researcher Emilio Ferrara talks about the rise of fake news and botnets – Tech Crunch
- These Scientists Wanted To Understand Twitter’s Bot Armies, So They Built Their Own – Fast Company
- Senator Slams Twitter’s Disclosure On Russian Meddling As ‘Inadequate On Every Level’ – Forbes
- Twitter’s Disclosure of Russian Activity Sparks Criticism From Lawmakers – The Wall Street Journal
- Twitter takes its turn in the Russian probe spotlight – Politico
- Twitter Says It Found 201 Russia-Linked Accounts That Aimed to Influence U.S. Election – Fox Business
- TWITTER STORMS – Civicist
- JACK DORSEY TAKES HIS TURN IN THE RUSSIA PROBE BARREL – Vanity Fair
- Fake News on Twitter Flooded Swing States That Helped Trump Win – Mother Jones
- Twitter to Testify Before Senate in Russia Probe – US News
- Researchers find that Twitter bots can be used for good – Tech Crunch
- Twitter Bots Can Encourage Decent Conduct, Not Just Fake News – News18
- Twitter bots for good: USC ISI study reveals how information spreads on social media – EurekAlert!
- Germany Election So Far Unaffected by ‘Fake News’ – Snopes
- Social media ‘bots’ tried to influence the U.S. election. Germany may be next – Science
- Computational propaganda poses challenge – Global Times
- Russia’s propaganda machine amplifies alt-right – The Hill
- #FireMcMaster, Not Damore: Twitter Bots Are Thriving, And They’re More Lethal Than Ever – Fast Company
- Why didn’t Macron leaks carry more clout in the French presidential election? – USC News
- The curious case of ‘Nicole Mincey,’ the Trump fan who may actually be a bot – The Washington Post
- Trump Thanked A ‘Supporter’ On Twitter, Then A Mystery Unraveled – A Plus
- Spreading fake news becomes standard practice for governments across the world – The Washington Post
- One in five bots sharing fake news during France’s presidential election were also involved in the United States’ – ZME Science
- Black-market bots, duped humans are responsible for derailing elections with fake news – ThinkProgress
- Study: Bots have turned Twitter into a powerful political disinformation platform – Venture Beat
- Fake news bots are so economical, you can use them over and over – Harvard NiemanLab
- Pro-Trump Twitter bots were also used to target Macron, research shows – The Verge
- There’s a Bit of Overlap Between Bots Trying to Manipulate American and French Elections – New York Magazine
- Research links pro-Trump, anti-Macron Twitter bots – The Hill
- The Same Twitter Bots That Helped Trump Tried to Sink Macron, Researcher Says – VICE
- How the Hashtag Is Changing Warfare – SIGNAL
- How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation – New York Times
- ‘Something fishy’ is going on with Trump’s twitter account, researchers say – Washington Post
- Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America – TIME (cover story)
- The Twitter Bots Who Tried to Steal France – Daily Beast
- When Facebook and Instagram Think You’re Depressed – VICE
- Twitter Has a Serious Problem—And It’s Actually a Bigger Deal Than People Realize – Mother Jones
- Sleeping Beauties of Science – Scientific American
- Twitter Bot — or Not? – The New York Times
- After political Twitter bot revelation, are companies at risk? – Computer World
- Searching for proof of Amy – San Francisco Examiner
- News That 48 Million Of Twitter’s Users May Be Bots Could Impact Its Valuation – Forbes
- How to save Twitter, two pennies at a time – The Denver Post
- How Understanding Identity Can Help Avoid Fraudulent Traffic – DMNews
- Fake accounts scandal weighs on Twitter boss – The Times
- Pressure Grows on Twitter CEO Dorsey Amid Bot Scandal – The Street
- CMO Today: Marketers and Political Wonks Gather for SXSW – The Wall Street Journal
- Huge number of Twitter accounts are not operated by humans – ABC News
- Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca says he ‘hates’ the stock, calls bot issue ‘embarrassing’ – CNBC
- Up to 48 million Twitter accounts are bots, study says – CNET
- R u bot or not? – VICE
- New Machine Learning Framework Uncovers Twitter’s Vast Bot Population – VICE/Motherboard
- A Whopping 48 Million Twitter Accounts Are Actually Just Bots, Study Says – Tech Times
- 15 Percent Of Twitter Accounts May Be Bots [STUDY] – Value Walk
- Why the Rise of Bots is a Concern for Social Networks – Enterpreneuer
- Study reveals whopping 48M Twitter accounts are actually bots – CBS News
- Twitter is home to nearly 48 million bots, according to report – The Daily Dot
- As many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren’t people, says study – CNBC
- New Study Says 48 Million Accounts On Twitter Are Bots – We are social media
- Almost 48 million Twitter accounts are bots – Axios
- Twitter user accounts: around 15% or 48 million are bots [study] – The Vanguard
- Report: 48 Million Twitter Accounts Are Bots – Breitbart
- Rise of the TWITTERBOTS – Daily Mail
- 15 per cent of Twitter is bots, but not the Kardashian kind – The Inquirer
- 48 mn Twitter accounts are bots, says study – The Economic Times
- 9-15 per cent of Twitter accounts are bots, reveals study – Financial Express
- Nearly 48 million Twitter accounts are bots: study – Deccan herald
- Study: Nearly 48 Million Twitter Accounts Are Fake; Many Push Political Agendas – The Libertarian Republic
- As many as 48 million accounts on Twitter are actually bots, study finds – Sacramento Bee
- Study Reveals Roughly 48M Twitter Accounts Are Actually Bots – CBS DFW
- Up to 48 million Twitter accounts may be Bots – Financial Buzz
- Up to 15% of Twitter accounts are not real people – Blasting News
- Tech Bytes: Twitter is Being Invaded by Bots – WDIO Eyewitness News
- About 9-15% of Twitter accounts are bots: Study – The Indian Express
- Twitter Has Nearly 48 Million Bot Accounts, So Don’t Get Hurt By All Those Online Trolls – India Times
- Twitter May Have 45 Million Bots on Its Hands – Investopedia
- Bots run amok on Twitter – My Broadband
- 9-15% of Twitter accounts are bots: Study – MENA FN
- Up To 15 Percent Of Twitter Users Are Bots, Study Says – Vocativ
- 48 million active Twitter accounts could be bots – Gearbrain
- Study: 15% of Twitter accounts could be bots – Marketing Dive
- 15% of Twitter users are actually bots, study claims – MemeBurn
- Almost 48 million Twitter accounts are bots – Click Lancashire
- As many as 48 million or around 15% of Twitter accounts are bots – TechWorm
- Twitter Has an Overwhelming 48 Million Bot Accounts – GineersNow
- Data Mining Reveals the Rise of ISIS Propaganda on Twitter – MIT Technology Review
- Data Mining Technology Helped Analyze ISIS Rise to Power – iHLS
- As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work – Washington Post
- How a Chicago man posts hundreds of pro-Trump tweets each day – Daily Herald
- You’ve probably been tricked by fake news and don’t know it – Science News
- Twitter Bots Favored Trump Leading Up to Election – U.S. News
- How the Bot-y Politic Influenced This Election – MIT Technology Review
- Facebook, Twitter & Trump – The New York Review of Books
- How Twitter bots played a role in electing Donald Trump – WIRED
- Twitter Bots Pollute Public’s Understanding of Politics – Newsweek
- How Twitter bots helped Donald Trump win the US presidential election – Arstechnica
- On Twitter, No One Knows You Are a Trump Bot – Fast Company
- The Algorithmic Democracy – Fast Co. Design
- Election 2016 Belongs to the Twitter Bots – VICE
- USC Study Finds Many Political Tweets Come From Fake Accounts – CACM News
- Almost a fifth of election chatter on Twitter comes from bots – Fusion
- Study reports that nearly 20% of election-related tweets were ‘algorithmically driven’ – Talking New Media
- How Twitter bots affected the US presidential campaign – The Conversation
- Advertising is driving social media-fuelled fake news and it is here to stay – The Conversation
- 20% of All Election Related Tweets Came From Non-Humans – Futurism
- Twitter Bots Dominate 2016 Presidential Election: New Study – Heavy
- Tracking The Election With Social Media In Real-Time: How Accurate Is It? – Heavy
- BOTS ‘SWAY’ ELECTION Fake tweets by social media robots could swing US Presidential election – The Sun
- A fifth of all US election tweets have come from bots – ABC News
- The Trump factor tipped to spread to Australian politics as Aussie Truthers push on social media – News .com.au
- There are 400,000 Bots That Just Tweet Political Views All Day – Investopedia
- Real, or not? USC study finds many political tweets come from fake accounts – Science Blog
- Software bots distort Donald Trump support on Twitter: Study – ETCIO
- How hackers, social bots, data analysts shaped the U.S. election – The Nation
- That swarm of political tweets in your feed? Many could be from bots – The Business Journals
- Software ‘bots’ distort Trump support on Twitter – New Vision
- Bots Invade Twitter, Spreads Misinformation On US Election – EconoTimes
- Software ‘bots’ seen skewing support for Trump on Twitter – The Japan Times
- US Presidential Elections 2016: Bot-generated fake tweets influencing US election outcome, says new study – Indian Express
- US elections 2016: Researchers show how Twitter bots are trying to influence the poll in favour of Trump – International Business Times
- Aliens, and the autopsy into Hillary Clinton’s political death – Toronto SUN
- Hillary vs Trump: Most of the election chatter online by Twitter bots, says study – Tech 2 First Post
- Twitter bots distort Trump support – iAfrica
- Social Media ‘Bots’ Working To Influence U.S. Election – CBS San Francisco
- Almost a fifth of election chatter on Twitter comes from bots – Full Act
- Software ‘bots’ distort Trump support on Twitter: study – Yahoo! News
- Bots Will Break 2016 US Elections Results – iTechPost
- Scientist Worries Robot-Generated Tweets Could Compromise The Presidential Election – Newsroom America
- Software ‘bots’ distort Trump support on Twitter: study – Phys.org
- Spotlight: Fake tweets endanger integrity of U.S. presidential election – XinhuanNet
- New Study: Twitter Bots Amount for One-Fifth of US Election Conversation – Dispatch Weekly
- Are Robot generated Tweets compromising US Polls? – TechRadar India
- Fake tweets endanger integrity of US presidential election – Global Times
- Software ‘bots’ distort Trump support on Twitter: study – The Daily Star
- Software ‘bots’ distort Trump support on Twitter: study – News Dog
- Malicious Twitter bots could have profound consequences for the election – RawStory
- ‘Robot-generated fake tweets influencing US election outcome’ – Daily News & Analysis
- Sophisticated Bot-Generated Tweets Could Influence Outcome of US Presidential Election – Telegiz
- UIC Journal Shows ‘Bots’ Sway Political Discourse, Could Impact Election – NewsWise
- Bot-generated tweets could threaten integrity of 2016 US presidential election: Study – BGR
- Bot generated tweets influence US Presidential election polls – I4U News
- High percentage of robot-generated fake tweets likely to influence public opinion – NewsGram
- ‘Robot-generated fake tweets influencing US election outcome’ – Press Trust of India
- Robot-generated fake tweets influencing US election outcome: Study – IndianExpress
- Fake Tweets, real consequences for the election – Phys.org
- Real, or not? USC study finds many political tweets come from fake accounts – USC News
- We’re in a digital world filled with lots of social bots – USC News
- 23 reasons to get excited about data – IBM Watson Analytics
- Algorithm knows when corporate money is pushing memes online – New Scientist
- Algorithm identifies artificially promoted Twitter memes and hashtags – The Stack
- La fórmula científica que te podría convertir en la próxima Cara Delevingne – Vanitatis
- Social Network Sleuths: Investigators Pursue Criminal Gangs Via Phone Chatter – Homeland Security Today
- The More You Comment Online, The Dumber Your Comments Become – Huffington Post
- The longer you’re on the web, the less interesting your commentary becomes – USC News
- Cool study, bro: Why Reddit comments degrade over time – USC Press Room
- On Twitter, your positive tweets are actually contagious – The Daily Dot
- Happiness is contagious – USC Viterbi News
- Pro-Trump Twitter Bots at Center of Nevada Mystery – Wall Street Journal
- How Ebola Infected Twitter: When it comes to sharing online, nothing spreads like fear – Nautilus
- Web of lies: Is the internet making a world without truth? – New Scientist
- The Top 100 Big Data Experts to Follow in 2016 – Maptive
- How DARPA Took On the Twitter Bot Menace with One Hand Behind Its Back – MIT Technology Review
- The US government held a contest to identify evil propaganda robots on Facebook and Twitter – Business Insider
- Why you need to purge your Twitter feed of angry people – The Telegraph
- Twitter Emotions Are Contagious, Says New Study, But At Least The Positive Ones Are More So Than The Negative Ones – Bustle
- Twitter users more likely to share happiness than sadness – The Rakyat Post
- Twitter reacts positively to upbeat emotions, study finds – USC News
- Positive emotions more contagious than negative ones on Twitter – Phys.org
- On Twitter, Is the Next POTUS a Bot-US? – Wall Street Journal
- Why Does Facebook Keep Suggesting You Friend Your Tinder Matches? – Vice
- New data suggest social media brings out the best in us, after all – Quartz
- Bad news travels fast but positive posts spread wide – The Straits Times
- Positive content has greater reach – Business First Magazine
- Data Shows that Positive Content Does Better on Social Media – Good
- Why can’t Twitter kill its bots? – Fusion
- The Algorithm of Instagram Fashion – The Science Times
- THE SCIENCE OF A SUPERMODEL – Vogue
- Here’s how to predict next season’s breakout stars – Dazed
- Instagram Can Determine Which Models Rule the Runway at Fashion Week – StyleCaster
- Instagram to predict next ‘It Girl’? – HLN Tv
- Wondering Who’ll Be This Season’s Breakout Models? Apparently There’s A Mathematical Formula For That – Grazia Daily
- Study Concludes Runway Models With Hips Have a Harder Time Being It Girls – Styleite
- FMD Featured in Indiana University Study to Predict Popular Models for NYFW – SBWire
- NYFW: Instagram May Be Able To Predict Fashion Week’s Top Models – University Herald
- Scientists Can Now Predict How Successful A Model Will Be – AskMen
- Stylebook snapshot: Researchers study impact of Instagram on models’ success – Pittsburg Post Gazette
- VIDEO: Instagram can predict top models for New York Fashion Week – Irish Examiner
- America’s Next Top Model Cycle 22 Winner Predicted By Instagram? Scientists Create Algorithm That Can Do That – iSchoolGuide
- FOLLOWING INSTAGRAM MODELS FOR SCIENCE AND FASHION WEEK – News Ledge
- Instagram Correctly Predicts 80% Of Next Top Models At Fashion Event – Yibada
- Instagram can now predict who America’s Next Top Model will be – Digital Trends
- INSTAGRAM WILL TELL YOU ABOUT TOP MODELS AT THE NEW YORK FASHION WEEK – The Market Business
- INSTAGRAM IS QUITE GOOD AT PREDICTING WHO THE NEXT TOP MODEL WILL BE – Regal Tribune
- Instagram can help predict a model’s success – Red Orbit
- INSTAGRAM CAN HELP PREDICT INDUSTRY’S NEXT TOP MODEL – The Market Business
- INSTAGRAM CAN MAKE ACCURATE PREDICTIONS ON SUPERMODELS’ POPULARITY – Mirror Daily
- SCIENTISTS CAN PREDICT AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL – Wall Street Hedge
- NEW ALGORITHM CAN HELP INSTAGRAM PREDICT AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL – Utah People’s Post
- Instagram can predict the NYFW next top model with 80 percent accuracy – Inferse
- Is Instagram the new runway for fashion? – Daily O
- How Instagram Can Predict Next Supermodels? – My Tech Bits
- INSTAGRAM WILL TELL YOU WHO IS THE NEXT TOP MODEL – Apex Tribune
- Algorithm using Instagram data can predict upcoming top model – Northern Californian
- NYFW: Instagram Could Predict The Next Top Model – University Herald
- Instagram Can Now Be Used to Predict the Fashion World’s Next Supermodel – iDigitalTimes Australia
Instagram, Social Media, and New York Fashion Week – Pioneer News - Instagram Predicts Future Of Modeling Popularity – Press Examiner
- Instagram Predicts A Model’s Future Popularity According To Social Scientists – Bustle
- IU SCIENTISTS CAN PREDICT AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL USING INSTAGRAM – I4U
- Instagram Could Be Used To Identify Popularity Level Of Models – ubergizmo
- Instagram will tell you industry’s next top model – Nature World Report
- Next Year’s Fashion Trends: Indiana University Algorithm Employs Instagram Data To Predict The Next Top Models – Immortal News
- Popularity of models can be gauged using Instagram, study shows – Techienews
- INSTAGRAM CAN HELP PREDICT INDUSTRY’S NEXT TOP MODEL – The market business
- TOP MODELS’ SUCCESS NOW DEPENDS UPON THEIR INSTAGRAM POPULARITY – Trinity News Daily
- Who will be America’s next top model? Ask Instagram – CBS News
- This Machine-Learning Algorithm Can Predict the Next Top Model – The Fashion Spot
- New York Fashion Week 2015: Can Scientists Use Instagram To Identify Budding Models? – iDigitalTimes
- Want To Know If You Can Be A Fashion Model? There’s A Machine-Learning Algorithm For That – Tech Times
- SCIENTISTS CAN USE INSTAGRAM TO PREDICT FASHION WEEK’S BIGGEST MODELS – Harper’s Bazaar
- Scientists Can Now Predict Top Models. Sorry, Tyra – Yahoo! Style
- Scientists Figure Out a Formula to Determine Top Model Success – Racked
- Can You Scientifically Predict a Model’s Success? – New York Magazine
- Machine Learning Algorithm Predicts Which New Faces Will Make It as Fashion Models – MIT Technology Review
- Machine Learning Selects World’s Next Top Models – Communications of the ACM
- Slack Is Overrun With Bots. Friendly, Wonderful Bots – WIRED
- The science of SUPERMODELS: Researchers create algorithm that scours Instagram to find the best new talent – Daily Mail UK
- Machine learning selects world’s next top models – it News
- IU scientists use Instagram data to forecast top models at New York Fashion Week – IU Bloomington newsroom
- This new study suggests sad tweets make you sad – Fusion
- The Power Of Twitter’s Emotional Influence – Focus News
- Emotions in Tweets Are Contagious: Study – NDTV
- Emotions in tweets are contagious – Business Standard
- Emotions on Twitter are contagious, says study – DNA
- ‘Sleeping beauty’ papers slumber for decades – Nature News
- Even Einstein’s Research Can Take Time to Matter – New York Times
- ‘Sleeping beauty’ studies ahead of their time – ABC Science
- Like Sleeping Beauty, some research lies dormant for decades, study finds – Phys.org
- The Dayside : Kissed by a prince – Physics Today
- The Sleeping Beauties of Science – Pacific Standard
- Quando la ricerca è una “bella addormentata” – Le Scienze
- Paper all’avanguardia: fanno il botto decenni dopo la pubblicazione – Oggi Scienza
- ‘Sleeping Beauty’ studies don’t pay off for decades – Futurity
- Sleeping Beauty Research Papers Can Languish For Decades, Even For Albert Einstein – Tech Times
- Like Sleeping Beauty, Some Research Lies Dormant for Decades – News Wise
- El estudio de Einstein que resucitó a los 60 años y otras bellas durmientes – El Pais
- ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Studies Don’t Pay Off for Decades – Epoch Times
- Like Sleeping Beauty, some research lies dormant for decades, IU study finds – Indiana University Newsroom
- Bot or Not? By James Gleick – The New York Review of Books
- Twitter’s Bot Problem: Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Rihanna And Other Musicians Have Mostly Fake Followings – International Business Times
- Why Fear Spreads Faster Than Facts on Social Media – Hootsuite
- In Social Networking, ‘Weak’ Connections May Be the Most Powerful – Vice.com
- Fear, Misinformation, and Social Media Complicate Ebola Fight – TIME
- Social media can improve, muddy election campaigns – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- How To Spot A Social Bot On Twitter – MIT Technology Review
- Barack Obama Is Probably a Robot, and Other Lessons from ‘Bot Or Not’ – Vice.com
- Social Bots on Twitter are More Than a Minor Nuisance – Social Times
- An Algorithm To Identify Social Bot on Twitter – Value Walk
- Lying, spamming and scamming on the web – The Spectator
- This Algorithm Tells You If A Twitter Account Is a Spam Bot – Mashable
- How to Spot A Bot… or Find Out If You Sound Like One – ABC News
- Lo strumento per distinguere bot e umani su Twitter – Wired.it
- Indiana University Will Devote $1 Million to the Study of Internet Memes – The Mary Sue
- The U.S. government is spending $1 million to figure out memes – The Daily Dot
- U.S. Military Sends Scouting Party Into the Twitterverse – TIME
- US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research – The Guardian
- Twitter Inc Users Studied By US Military In Darpa-Funded Research – Value Walk
- How online ‘chatbots’ are already tricking you – BBC
- ‘Bot or Not’ App Susses Out Twitter Spambots – Tom’s Guide
- Computer scientists develop tool for uncovering bot-controlled Twitter accounts – Phys.org
- IU computer scientists develop tool for uncovering bot-controlled Twitter accounts – IU Newsroom
- Criminal Gang Connections Mapped via Phone Metadata – Communications of the ACM
- New software can map criminal gang connections – The Free Press Journal
- Gangster science: How police use network theory to track gang members – The Daily Dot
- New software can map criminal gang connections – Business Standard
- IU researcher helps Italian police fight crime – The Washington Times
- Criminal gang connections mapped via phone metadata – New Scientist
- Mafia Wars: How Italy’s Secret Police Use Metadata To Track Organized Crime – Fast Company
- LogAnalysis maps the structure of gangs using phone records – Engadget
- How to Detect Criminal Gangs Using Mobile Phone Data – MIT Technology Review
- Complex networks researcher at IU fighting crime with mobile phone data – IU Newsroom
- One Tweet if by Land – Newsweek
- Where do Twitter trends start? Try Cincinnati – The Washington Post
- Study: Seattle is top Twitter trendsetter in the U.S. – The Seattle Times
- The Top Five Trend-Setting Cities on Twitter – MIT Technology Review
- Study Finds Cincinnati Is Major Twitter Trendsetter in U.S. – CityBeat
- Seattle generates more nationally-trending topics on Twitter than any other U.S. city, study says – GeekWire
- Cincinnati is leading the way on Twitter – CincyBizBlog
- The Anatomy of the Occupy Wall Street Movement on Twitter – MIT Technology Review
- Data dance, big data and data mining – The Why Files
- Cell phone data analysis dials in crime networks – Science News
- Using statistics to catch cheats and criminals – Physics Today
- Bond with the best: FaceBook vs Twitter – TechKnowBits.com
- Study: Facebook Builds Better Communities Than Twitter – The Atlantic
- Facebook Builds Stronger Bonds Than Twitter, Study Says – Mashable
- Study shows similarities between Facebook and real-world communities – Leaders West
- Does Facebook Really Create Stronger Bonds Than Twitter? – Daily lounge
- Facebook Encourages Stronger Bonds Over Twitter: Study – hashtags.org
- Facebook and Strongly Connected Communities – Cornell University
- Driven by friendship – SpringerSelect
- Facebook is a community – Science Daily
- Data-Mining Facebook – Idiro Technologies
Press in non-English media
- Manipolazioni social nella corsa alla Casa Bianca – Micron (in Italian)
- I bot di Twitter sono pronti a diffondere disinformazione prima delle elezioni – News H24 (in Italian)
- Conspiracoes da web tomam campanha presidencial dos Estados Unidos – Estadao (in Portuguese)
- La fabbrica dei troll è tornata – Oggi Scienza (in Italian)
- La difficile lotta a bufale e teorie complottiste sul coronavirus – Le Scienze (Scientific American edition in Italian)
- Coronavirus : une difficile lutte contre l’épidémie de désinformation – Pour La Science (in French)
- Bots en Twitter: Cómo se organizan y operan – La Nacion (in Spanish)
- Come smascherare il bot – Le Scienze (Scientific American edition in Italian)
- Usar la imperfección humana para detectar bots – La Vanguardia (in Spanish)
- Wie man auf Twitter erkennt, dass man mit Robotern streitet – Die Press (in German)
- Twitterbotar allt större hot mot politiska val – Resume (in German)
- Bots en Twitter incidieron en el 1-O, según un estudio – El Pais (in Spanish)
- I robot diventano sempre più invadenti, si fingono umani e diffondono propaganda – Il fatto quotidiano (in Italian)
- ‘Bots’ de Twitter van generar “contingut violent” per influir en l’1-O, segons un estudi – El Periodico (in Spanish)
- Bots en Twitter promovieron contenido violento en referéndum, según estudio – La Vangardia (in Spanish)
- Bots de Twitter van generar contingut violent abans de l’1-O – Regio 7 (in Spanish)
- Del mito a la realidad: hasta dónde puede llegar la manipulación electoral de los votantes – infobae (in Spanish)
- Los ‘bots’ contaminaron el 1 de octubre con un millón de tuits – El Pais (in Spanish)
- Sui social, i bot hanno influenzato le elezioni statunitensi: Ora si guarda alla Germania – Consumerismo (in Italian)
- Bot economy e le leggi di Asimov – Data Manager Online (in Italian)
- Difundir noticias falsas es algo común para todos los gobiernos del mundo – Infobae (in Spanish)
- El uso de los los bots de Twitter – Panama On (in Spanish)
- Los bots aman a Trump y odian a Macron – La Vanguardia (in Spanish)
- La incidencia de Fake News en las campañas de Trump y Macron – TyN Magazine (in Spanish)
- Twitter bilgi kirliliğini besleyenlerin oyun sahası haline nasıl geliyor? – Teyit (in Turkish)
- Președintele Trump, prietenul roboților ruși? – Cotidianul (in Turkish)
- El debate político en Twitter se desinfló a comparación de 2015 – El Patagonico (in Spanish)
- Twitter ist Forschung – WELT (in German)
- Wie Fake News entstehen und warum sie eine Gefahr darstellen – CT magazine (in German)
- El uso de ‘bots’ en las elecciones de Francia, por Donald Trump – Sipse (in Spanish)
- Ugyanazok a Twitter robotok kampányoltak Trumpnak és Le Pennek – 444 (in Ukranian)
- Pendant la présidentielle, les robots pro-Trump ont joué les anti-Macron sur Twitter – Mashable (in French)
- Présidentielle française : les robots pro-Trump ont joué les anti-Macron sur Twitter – France 24 (in French)
- Les 18.000 bots qui ont favorisé la diffusion des MacronLeaks – Slate (in French)
- Macron Leaks : Les bots pro-Trump utilisés dans la campagne de désinformation – Le Monde (in French)
- La falsa realidad creada por los bots en Twitter – The New York Times (in Spanish)
- Bad Bot oder Mensch – das ist hier die Frage – Medien Milch (in German)
- Studie: Bis zu 48 Millionen Twitter-Nutzer sind in Wirklichkeit Bots – T3N (in German)
- Der Aufstieg der Twitter-Bots: 48 Millionen Nutzer sind nicht menschlich – Studie – Sputnik News (in German)
- Studie: Bis zu 48 Millionen Nutzer auf Twitter sind Bots – der Standard (in German)
- “Blade Runner”-Test für Twitter-Accounts: Bot oder Mensch? – der Standard (in German)
- Bot-Paradies Twitter – Sachsische Zeitung (in German)
- 15 Prozent Social Bots? – DLF24 (in German)
- TWITTER: IST JEDER SIEBTE USER EIN BOT? – UberGizmo (in German)
- Twitter: Bis zu 48 Millionen Bot-Profile – Heise (in German)
- Studie: Bis zu 15 Prozent aller aktiven, englischsprachigen Twitter-Konten sind Bots – Netzpolitik (in German)
- Automatische Erregung – Wiener Zeitung (in German)
- 15 por ciento de las cuentas de Twitter son ‘bots’: estudio – CNET (in Spanish)
- 48 de los 319 millones de usuarios activos de Twitter son bots – TIC Beat (in Spanish)
- 15% de las cuentas de Twitter son ‘bots’ – Merca 2.0 (in Spanish)
- 48 de los 319 de usuarios activos en Twitter son bots – MDZ (in Spanish)
- Twitter, paradis des «bots»? – Slate (in French)
- Twitter compterait 48 millions de comptes gérés par des robots – MeltyStyle (in French)
- Twitter : 48 millions de comptes sont des bots – blog du moderateur (in French)
- ’30 tot 50 miljoen actieve Twitter-accounts zijn bots’ – NOS (in Dutch)
- 48 εκατομμύρια χρήστες στο Twitter δεν είναι άνθρωποι, σύμφωνα με έρευνα Πηγή – LiFo (in Greek)
- 48 triệu người dùng Twitter là bot và mối nguy hại – Khoa Hoc Phattrien (in Vietnamese)
- Post-vérité – La revue européenne des médias et du numérique (in French)
- Twitter, 25 mila account dell’Isis – Pagina99 (in Italian)
- Trump su Twitter ha un esercito di bot – Il Post (in Italian)
- La violencia extrema del Dáesh en Twitter le ayudó a alzarse frente a Al Qaeda – MIT Technology Review (in Spanish)
- Così funziona la propaganda politica a colpi di bot su Twitter – La Stampa (in Italian)
- Así explica la ciencia la difusión de noticias falsas en los medios de comunicación – El Periodico (in Spanish)
- 10 conductas muy contagiosas – Muy Interesante (in Spanish)
- Robots behind the millions of tweets: “The integrity at danger” – Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish)
- Elezioni Usa: il 19% dei tweet elettorali è prodotto da software – Repubblica (in Italian)
- ¿Cómo nos engañan los ‘bots’ online? – Autobild.es (in Spanish)
- El atroz encanto del terror – La Nacion (in Spanish)
- La bella addormentata non è una favola di Natale – Giornale dell’università di Padova (in Italian)
- Lo que encontramos en las redes sociales afecta cada vez más a nuestro estado de ánimo – Puro Marketing (in Spanish)
- Tuitea la alegría, que eso se pega – Primera Hora (in Spanish)
- Cómo Facebook y Twitter pueden influir en tu estado de ánimo – La Nacion (in Spanish)
- Study: Twitter “infects” people with positive emotions – Gazeta.ru (in Russian)
- La joie, un sentiment virtuellement plus partagé que la tristesse sur Twitter – Le Soir (in French)
- La joie, plus partagée que la tristesse sur Twitter – Luxemburg Wort (in French)
- Modelle e top model, dietro il successo c’è una formula matematica – Grazia (in Italian)
- Come cambia la bellezza al tempo di Instagram – La Stampa (in Italian)
- Buzz Mode : Instagram ou la clé du succès des mannequins selon une étude de l’université de l’Indiana – Melty Fashion (in French)
- TOP MODEL, IL SUCCESSO È IN UN ALGORITMO – Lettera Donna (in Italian)
- Un algoritmo italiano prevede il successo delle top model – Corriere (in Italian)
- La scienza della “super modella”: arriva l’algoritmo per scovare nuovi talenti sui social – Fanpage (in Italian)
- Cientistas criam algoritmo que prevê o sucesso das modelos através do Instagram – Visão (in Portuguese)
- A computer algorithm can predict the popularity of top models – Vesti (Вести.Ru in Russian)
- Tomorrow: the United States develop software to predict IG supermodel accuracy rate of 80% – Chinatimes (in Chinese)
- Likes are more important than the perfect dress size – Die Welt (in German)
- Twitterbots manipulate political debates and markets – Futurezone (in German)
- Il messaggio vola su Facebook – Focus (pp. 78 n. 244 – Febbraio 2013) (in Italian)
- Come si diffondono le conversazioni? – we are social (in Italian)
- I confini della socializzazione: non tutto si può condividere – MarketingArena (in Italian)