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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - ' Recently, social bots, (semi-) automatized accounts in social media, gained
    global attention in the context of public opinion manipulation. Dystopian scenarios
    like the malicious amplification of topics, the spreading of disinformation, and
    the manipulation of elections through “opinion machines” created headlines around
    the globe. As a consequence, much research effort has been put into the classification
    and detection of social bots. Yet, it is still unclear how easy an average online
    media user can purchase social bots, which platforms they target, where they originate
    from, and how sophisticated these bots are. This work provides a much needed new
    perspective on these questions. By providing insights into the markets of social
    bots in the clearnet and darknet as well as an exhaustive analysis of freely available
    software tools for automation during the last decade, we shed light on the availability
    and capabilities of automated profiles in social media platforms. Our results
    confirm the increasing importance of social bot technology but also uncover an
    as yet unknown discrepancy of theoretical and practically achieved artificial
    intelligence in social bots: while literature reports on a high degree of intelligence
    for chat bots and assumes the same for social bots, the observed degree of intelligence
    in social bot implementations is limited. In fact, the overwhelming majority of
    available services and software are of supportive nature and merely provide modules
    of automation instead of fully fledged “intelligent” social bots. @eng'
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Dennis
      foaf_name: Assenmacher, Dennis
      foaf_surname: Assenmacher
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Lena
      foaf_name: Clever, Lena
      foaf_surname: Clever
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Lena
      foaf_name: Frischlich, Lena
      foaf_surname: Frischlich
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Thorsten
      foaf_name: Quandt, Thorsten
      foaf_surname: Quandt
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Heike
      foaf_name: Trautmann, Heike
      foaf_surname: Trautmann
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=100740
    orcid: 0000-0002-9788-8282
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Christian
      foaf_name: Grimme, Christian
      foaf_surname: Grimme
  bibo_doi: 10.1177/2056305120939264
  bibo_issue: '3'
  bibo_volume: 6
  dct_date: 2020^xs_gYear
  dct_language: eng
  dct_title: 'Demystifying Social Bots: On the Intelligence of Automated Social Media
    Actors@'
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