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Bence Kollanyi
Researcher at Corvinus University of Budapest
Publications - 13
Citations - 679
Bence Kollanyi is an academic researcher from Corvinus University of Budapest. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Brexit. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 12 publications receiving 561 citations.
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Bots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum
Philip N. Howard,Bence Kollanyi +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that political bots have a small but strategic role in the referendum conversations: the family of hashtags associated with the argument for leaving the EU dominates, different perspectives on the issue utilize different levels of automation, and less than 1 percent of sampled accounts generate almost a third of all the messages.
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Bots, #Strongerin, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda During the UK-EU Referendum
Philip N. Howard,Bence Kollanyi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary study on the use of political bots during the UK referendum on EU membership, analyzing the tweeting patterns for both human users and bots, they found that political bots played a small but strategic role in the referendum conversations.
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Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States?
TL;DR: It is found that nationally, Twitter users got more misinformation, polarizing and conspiratorial content than professionally produced news and users in some states, however, shared more polarizing political news and information than users in other states.
Bots and Automation over Twitter during the Second U.S. Presidential Debate
TL;DR: Twitter is much more actively pro-Trump than pro-Clinton and more of the pro- Trump twitter traffic is driven by bots, but a significant number of (human) users still use Twitter for relatively neutral political expression in critical moments.
Bots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum
Philip N. Howard,Bence Kollanyi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary study on the use of political bots during the UK referendum on EU membership, analyzing the tweeting patterns for both human users and bots, they found that political bots played a small but strategic role in the referendum conversations.