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Newsportal - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

IT Security How Common Are Fake Profile Pictures on Twitter?

Newsportal - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Summary
Nutrition label

80% Informative

Researchers from Bochum , Germany , studied profile pictures of 15 million Twitter accounts.

They found that 0.052 percent of them used an AI -generated picture of a person as an avatar.

Many of the accounts are fake profiles that spread political propaganda and conspiracy theories.

VR Score

79

Informative language

76

Neutral language

74

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

62

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

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