Press: Alexandra Pavliuc’s article in The Conversation ‘Kamala Harris abuse campaign shows how trolls evade social media moderation’
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25 January 2021
One in four debate tweets comes from a bot. Here’s how to spot them.
21 October 2016
The project’s research into the US presidential election was featured in the Washington Post.
Philip Howard has a fancy name for partisan election bots. He calls them “computational propaganda” — and lately, he sees them a lot.
On Oct. 14, the Oxford University professor released a paper dissecting bot activity after the first American presidential debate, finding that — among other things — Donald Trump benefited disproportionately. Wednesday, he released a report on the second presidential debate that confirms and expands upon the findings of the first: namely, that propaganda bots are active on both sides, and that the pro-Trump accounts are worse.
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