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Twitter Deception And Influence: Issues Of Identity, Slacktivism, And Puppetry, David M. Cook, Benjamin Waugh, Maldini Abdipanah, Omid Hashemi, Shaquille Abdul Rahman
Twitter Deception And Influence: Issues Of Identity, Slacktivism, And Puppetry, David M. Cook, Benjamin Waugh, Maldini Abdipanah, Omid Hashemi, Shaquille Abdul Rahman
Dr. David M Cook
There is a lack of clarity within the social media domain about the number of discrete participants. Influence and measurement within new media is skewed towards the biggest numbers, resulting in fake tweets, sock puppets and a range of force multipliers such as botnets, application programming interfaces (APIs), and cyborgs. Social media metrics are sufficiently manipulated away from authentic discrete usage so that the trustworthiness of identity, narrative and authority are in a constant state of uncertainty. Elections, social causes, political agendas and new modes of online governance can now be influenced by a range of virtual entities that can …