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How do you spot social media bots?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Detection heuristics.

Figure 6-4. Subset of a social network, created using LinkedIn Labs Since bot networks will first create their own group by linking to one another before they start to infiltrate the rest of the network, especially in the beginning, you will see a highly dense network with very low cohesion to the rest of the network. However, those measures using network topology only work in the beginning as the bot network is formed. Once the bots…

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