PBS NewsHour Video: “Cracking The Stealth Political Influence Of Bots

From PBS NewsHour (via YouTube):

Among the millions of real people tweeting about the presidential race, there are also a lot accounts operated by fake people, or “bots.” Politicians and regular users alike use these accounts to increase their follower bases and push messages. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on how computer scientists can analyze Twitter handles to determine whether or not they are bots.

Note: Indiana University’s Truthy” Project/Observatory on Social Media provides public access to BotorNot and a number of other interesting and useful social media anlaysis tools.

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