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Thanks @russ1mitchell for covering our recent paper describing the existence of corporate computational social media accounts (#fanbots) and their role in support of the Tesla narrative. Here’s a link to the article in @latimes latimes.com/business/story… and a short summary. 🧵 1/n
Looking at tweets from Tesla IPO to 2020, we found a set of accounts that did not exhibit human-like behavior. Using Botometer botometer.osome.iu.edu, an IS tool from Fil Menczer at UoIllinois, we identified these accounts as programmed users generating pro-Tesla content. 2/n
The #fanbots were active in the pro-Tesla movement using #TSLA and $TSLA, whereas accounts active in the counter-movement around #TSLAQ and $TSLAQ were human users. This imbalance suggests that the fanbots were a strategic resource supporting the Tesla narrative. 3/n
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