How Do Social Bots Participate in Misinformation Spread? A Comprehensive Dataset and Analysis (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Social media platforms provide an ideal environment to spread misinformation, where social bots can accelerate the spread. |
| Approach: | They construct a large-scale dataset that includes annotations for misinformation and social bots on the Sina Weibo platform. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains 65,749 social bots and 345,886 genuine accounts, annotated using a weakly supervised annotator. |
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