[Air-L] Literature on fake profiles on Facebook and Twitter

[Nathalie PATON]

Dear Internet researchers,

In the frame of research on political participation online, I am looking for recent literature on fake profiles. I am especially interested in fake profiles on Facebook and Twitter, or anything related that could be relevant. 

My understanding of the situation is that robots are mainly used on Twitter to create fake accounts; they're used to automatically transfer content and generate audience around certain hashtags. On Facebook however, this operation is more complex since people would beed to subscribe to the fake accounts. But, as some researchers will probably notice, my understanding of the phenomenon is very limited.

Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Nathalie Paton, PhD
Junior Researcher
University of Toulouse, France
EHESS, Paris, France