Retraction notice: Who Leads? Who Follows? Exploring Agenda Setting by Media,Social Bots and Public in the Discussion of the 2022 South Korean Presidential Election

At the request of the Executive Editor and Sage, the following article¹ has been retracted for reasons of redundant publication—Zhang et al. (2024).

A reader contacted the Executive Editor with concerns about substantial unreferenced text overlap with another article² (Zhang et al., 2023), co-authored by the first author.

Due to the inappropriate duplication of text in publications without attribution, the Executive Editor retracts this article.

References

Zhang, M., Chen, Z., Liu, X., & Liu, J. (2023). Theory and practice of agenda setting: Understanding media, bot, and public agendas in the South Korean presidential election. Asian Journal of Communication, 34(1), 24–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2261112

Zhang, M., Qi, X., Liu, X., & Zhang, K. (2024). Who leads? Who follows? Exploring agenda setting by media, social bots and public in the discussion of the 2022 South Korean presidential election. Sage Open, 14(2), 2158244024. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241248891

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