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Marco T Bastos

@toledobastos

Ad Astra Fellow @UCD_iSchool. Views are my own, but tweets unfortunately are not (see Twitter ToS). #rstats @bastos@aoir.social
Dublin, IE Joined January 2007
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Marco T Bastos @toledobastos
Government engagement with the #UAP & #UFO topic has a quantifiable effect in subsiding disinformation concerns and conspiratorial narratives. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com Between disclosure and conspiracy: the transparency effect on r/UFO and r/UAP subreddits While there exists genuine scientific inquiry seeking to understand Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), the lore of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) is deeply intertwined with narratives del...
Marco T Bastos @toledobastos
Our contribution to the automation vs augmentation debate. Strategising with generative AI: Productivity gains in social media marketing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com Strategising with generative AI: Productivity gains in social media marketing This study explores the use of ChatGPT for social media marketing and its potential impact on employment. We take stock of the literature on productivity gain and automation of work to unpack the r...
Marco T Bastos @toledobastos
Here is our study that offers some validation to the amplification hypothesis (Phillips 2018) and the related, but perhaps less studied, audience capture hypothesis (Weiss and Winter 2018).
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com Reverse influence: the social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election This paper examines the shortcomings of applying prescriptive notions of disinformation to the 2022 Brazilian general election. We unpack the disinformation framework based on the assumption of lin...
Marco T Bastos @toledobastos
The grammar of influence operations and romance scams is quickly becoming the same. It’s not the Internet you dreamed of but it’s the Internet we have. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
journals.sagepub.com Visual Identities in Troll Farms: The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium - Marco Bastos, 2025 The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium is a database of network propaganda and influence operations that includes 115,474 unique Twitter accounts, millions ...