Press: Black, female and high-profile, Kamala Harris is a top target in online fever swamps
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Automated Pro-Trump Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say
18 November 2016
The project’s research on the US Presidential Election was covered in The New York Times.
An automated army of pro-Donald J. Trump chatbots overwhelmed similar programs supporting Hillary Clinton five to one in the days leading up to the presidential election, according to a report published Thursday by researchers at Oxford University.
The chatbots — basic software programs with a bit of artificial intelligence and rudimentary communication skills — would send messages on Twitter based on a topic, usually defined on the social network by a word preceded by a hashtag symbol, like #Clinton.
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