Inside the tool set of automation: Free social bot code revisited

Dennis Assenmacher; L. Adam; Lena Frischlich; Heike Trautmann; Christian Grimme

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39627-5_9

Inside the tool set of automation: Free social bot code revisited

Dennis Assenmacher, L. Adam, Lena Frischlich, Heike Trautmann, Christian Grimme^*

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Abstract

Social bots have recently gained attention in the context of public opinion manipulation on social media platforms. While a lot of research effort has been put into the classification and detection of such automated programs, it is still unclear how technically sophisticated those bots are, which platforms they target, and where they originate from. To answer these questions, we gathered repository data from open source collaboration platforms to identify the status-quo of social bot development as well as first insights into the overall skills of publicly available bot code.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Disinformation in open online media
Editors	Christian Grimme, Mike Preuß, Frank Takes, Annie Waldherr
Place of Publication	Wiesbaden
Publisher	Springer
Pages	101-114
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39627-5_9
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, MISDOOM 2019 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 27 Feb 2019 → 1 Mar 2019 https://2019.misdoom.org/

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	12021

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Conference	Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, MISDOOM 2019
Abbreviated title	MISDOOM 2019
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	27/02/19 → 1/03/19
Internet address	https://2019.misdoom.org/

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Assenmacher, D, Adam, L, Frischlich, L, Trautmann, H & Grimme, C 2020, Inside the tool set of automation: Free social bot code revisited. in C Grimme, M Preuß, F Takes & A Waldherr (eds), Disinformation in open online media. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12021, Springer, Wiesbaden, pp. 101-114, Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, MISDOOM 2019, Hamburg, Germany, 27/02/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39627-5_9

Inside the tool set of automation: Free social bot code revisited. / Assenmacher, Dennis; Adam, L.; Frischlich, Lena et al.

Disinformation in open online media. ed. / Christian Grimme; Mike Preuß; Frank Takes; Annie Waldherr. Wiesbaden : Springer, 2020. p. 101-114 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12021).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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