Un « bot » Twitter imite Donald Trump pour mieux le dénoncer
Helped with a story for Le Monde, on bots and computational propaganda. Mais Donald Trump sait lui aussi tirer profit des bots. Le chercheur d’Oxford Philip Howard, qui s’intéresse à la « propagande...
View ArticleBots and Automation over Twitter during the Second U.S. Presidential Debate
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been particularly active on public policy issues, political crises, and elections. We collected data...
View ArticleDonald Trump support during presidential debate was inflated by bots,...
Our research was featured in the Independent: The robot tweets helped give the appearance that Mr Trump had more support than he did, according to Professor Howard. That apparent surge in support was...
View ArticleDonald Trump Twitter Bot Announces Candidacy For President
Contributed to a story for the Newsweek website. The study , by Oxford University professor Philip Howard, found that bots backing Trump sent out more than four times as many tweets than those...
View ArticleA third of pro-Trump tweets are generated by bots
Our research was featured in a piece on the CNN Money site. Donald Trump is more popular than Hillary Clinton on Twitter — with both humans and machines. University researchers who track political...
View ArticleNETZPOLITIK Digitale Dreckschleudern
Our research was featured in Spiegel Online: Automatische Bots verzerren politische Diskussionen in sozialen Netzwerken und können Wahlen beeinflussen. Die Kanzlerin hält sie für gefährlich, die AfD...
View ArticleOne in four debate tweets comes from a bot. Here’s how to spot them.
Our research was featured in the Washington Post online: Philip Howard has a fancy name for partisan election bots. He calls them “computational propaganda” — and lately, he sees them a lot.
View ArticlePro-Clinton bots ‘fought back but outnumbered in second debate’
Helped with a BBC story on the battles between candidate bots. The suspected bot accounts tweeted more than 1.7 million times on the days of the debates and the next three days. The study warns they...
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