The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research

• Adrian Rauchfleisch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adrian.rauchfleisch@gmail.com

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1232-083X

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• Jonas Kaiser

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Communication, Journalism, & Media Department, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, Berlin, Germany

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