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Astroturfing

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Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends

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We uncover a previously unknown, ongoing astroturfing attack on the popularity mechanisms of social media platforms: ephemeral astroturfing attacks. In this attack, a chosen keyword or topic is artificially promoted by coordinated and inauthentic activity ...

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Disinformation from the Inside: Combining Machine Learning and Journalism to Investigate Sockpuppet Campaigns

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This paper brings together machine learning and investigative journalism to examine sockpuppets accounts, a historical breed of fake accounts that are non-automated and human-controlled. Due to their flexible and human-centered nature, sockpuppets pose a c ...

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La formation des ingénieurs civils à l'EPFL: une croissance prometteuse

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