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arXiv:1910.01720cs.SI

Bots, elections, and social media: a brief overview

Emilio Ferrara

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Abstract

Bots, software-controlled accounts that operate on social media, have been used to manipulate and deceive. We studied the characteristics and activity of bots around major political events, including elections in various countries. In this chapter, we summarize our findings of bot operations in the context of the 2016 and 2018 US Presidential and Midterm elections and the 2017 French Presidential election.

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  1. Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network 1 comment

    • More than possible, it's been relatively simple to do for practically a decade. Case in point, here's one of my papers looking at twitter bots from 2011: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/viewP... For a recent (last week!) review checkout…

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