Does Social Bot Help Socialize? Evidence from a Microblogging Platform

• Yang Gao

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  Yang Gao

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  Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820

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• Maggie Mengqing Zhang

  Maggie Mengqing Zhang

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  McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

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• Mikhail Lysyakov

  Mikhail Lysyakov

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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4540-8512

  Simon Business School, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

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