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You can join the effort to expose Twitter bots

  • Written by Pik-Mai Hui, Ph.D. Student in Informatics and Network Science, Indiana University
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In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, more than 10,000 automated Twitter accounts got caught conducting a coordinated campaign of tweets to discourage people from voting. These automated accounts may seem authentic to some, but a tool called Botometer was able to identify them while they...

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