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There is thus a growing need to identify and eliminate \"influence bots\" - realistic, automated identities that illicitly shape discussion on sites like Twitter and Facebook - before they get too influential. Spurred by such events, DARPA held a 4-week competition in February/March 2015 in which multiple teams supported by the DARPA Social Media in Strategic Communications program competed to identify a set of previously identified \"influence bots\" serving as ground truth on a specific topic within Twitter. Past work regarding influence bots often has difficulty supporting claims about accuracy, since there is limited ground truth (though some exceptions do exist [3,7]). However, with the exception of [3], no past work has looked specifically at identifying influence bots on a specific topic. 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There\nis thus a growing need to identify and eliminate \"influence bots\" - realistic,\nautomated identities that illicitly shape discussion on sites like Twitter and\nFacebook - before they get too influential. Spurred by such events, {DARPA} held\na 4-week competition in {February/March} 2015 in which multiple teams supported\nby the {DARPA} Social Media in Strategic Communications program competed to\nidentify a set of previously identified \"influence bots\" serving as ground\ntruth on a specific topic within Twitter. Past work regarding influence bots\noften has difficulty supporting claims about accuracy, since there is limited\nground truth (though some exceptions do exist [3,7]). However, with the\nexception of [3], no past work has looked specifically at identifying influence\nbots on a specific topic. This paper describes the {DARPA} Challenge and\ndescribes the methods used by the three top-ranked teams.},\n author = {Subrahmanian, V. 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