Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate
Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate
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DOI：
10.2105/ajph.2018.304567
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发表时间：
2018-10-01
影响因子：
12.7
通讯作者：
Dredze, Mark
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作者：
Broniatowski, David A.;Jamison, Amelia M.;Dredze, Mark
目标。了解Twitter机器人和巨魔如何促进在线健康内容。我们将机器人与与疫苗相关消息的平均用户比率进行了比较，我们从2014年7月至2017年9月在线收集了机器人。我们估计了用户是机器人的可能性，比较了用户类型跨用户类型的两极分化和抗生素推文的比例。我们对与俄罗斯巨魔活动相关的Twitter主题标签进行了内容分析。与普通用户相比，俄罗斯巨魔（Chi（2）（1）= 102.0; P
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (bots) promote online health content.Methods. We compared bots to average users rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing proportions of polarized and antivaccine tweets across user types. We conducted a content analysis of a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll activity.Results. Compared with average users, Russian trolls (chi(2)(1)=102.0; P