英文摘要:
In recent years, computational propaganda on social media has become increasingly fierce, and
social bots have been widely used to manipulate public opinion, create topics and divert attention, becoming
a tool for social media manipulation. Therefore, it is important to detect them and analyze the patterns of their
behaviors. From both a technical and social perspective of computational propaganda, this study extracts both
artificial and deep‑learning features of 2.2 million Weibo accounts to establish a social bots detection model
for 11 topical issues in 2019‑2020. By using several methods such as dataset split and model integration, the
average AUC of the model is over 0.88. Controlling the proportion of bots in each event, the study samples
140, 000 Weibo users for logistic regression and finds that the bots in social topical issues are both "smart"
and "stupid". On the one hand, they conceal themselves with low activity. On the other hand, they prefer
collective actions and highly homogeneous texts. They prefer to playing an amplifying role rather than a
leading role, and their impact on opinion amplification is stronger than their impact on opinion leading. To
sum up, social bots on microblog show obvious characteristics and high predictability in hot social events,
and their strategy is mainly to expand the voice rather than to lead public opinion.
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