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- The word 'bot' is increasingly being used as an insult on social media https://www.newscientist.com/article/2434742-the-word-bot-is-increasingly-being-used-as-an-insult-on-social-media/ 11 comments
- Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment https://www.fastcompany.com/91321143/bot-farms-social-media-manipulation 5 comments
- Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis: study https://news.usc.edu/164317/cannabis-health-social-media-bots-fake-claims/ 120 comments
- Trump’s Social-Media Order Is a Gift to Disinformation Bots, Experts Say https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/05/trumps-social-media-order-gift-disinformation-bots-experts-say/165733/?oref=d-river 10 comments politics
- Social Media Users Struggle to Spot Political AI Bots https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/social-media-users-struggle-to-spot-political-ai-bots/ 30 comments technology
- SEC Hunts for Fraud in Social-Media Posts Hyping GameStop Amid Mounting Concern of Bot Activity in Reddit’s WallStreetBets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/sec-hunts-for-fraud-in-social-media-posts-that-drove-up-gamestop 8 comments politics
- Social media troll bots target Buttigieg https://www.cbsnews.com/video/social-media-troll-bots-take-aim-at-2020-presidential-candidate-pete-buttigieg/ 104 comments politics
- Bots vs. Trolls: How AI Could Clean Up Social Media https://www.wsj.com/articles/bots-vs-trolls-how-ai-could-clean-up-social-media-1533849001?mod=e2tw 9 comments technology
- Twitter Confirms It Is Cooperating with the Russia Probe: The social-media company is expected to tell Senate investigators how Russian bots may have influenced the 2016 election. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/twitter-confirms-it-is-cooperating-with-the-russia-probe 252 comments worldnews
- The billionaire GOP patron behind Trump's social media bot army http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/billionaire-gop-patron-behind-trump-social-media-bot-army-article-1.3236933 144 comments politics
- Introducing AutoGPT-Social, an autonomous social media bot powered by GPT🤖📸 https://github.com/WillReynolds5/AutoGPT-Social 20 comments artificial
- Ukraine dismantles social media bot farm spreading "panic" https://therecord.media/ukraine-dismantles-social-media-bot-farm-spreading-panic/ 15 comments technology
- Feinstein Bill Prevents Use of Social Media Bots in Elections https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=8f4b0ed1-8af0-4a97-a94a-b56ea70c25fe 238 comments politics
- Neutral bots probe political bias on social media https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25738-6 5 comments science
- Social media troll bots take aim at 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrdQXAKspKc 161 comments politics
- Firm That Sold Social Media Bots Settles With New York Attorney General https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/technology/letitia-james-social-media-bots.html 3 comments politics
- Firm That Sold Social Media Bots Settles With New York Attorney General https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/technology/letitia-james-social-media-bots.html 10 comments moderatepolitics
- Trump support during presidential debates bolstered by social media bots, research claims http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/trump-support-during-presidential-debates-being-bolstered-by-social-media-bots-new-research-claims.html 10 comments politics
- Bots, trolls and fake news: Social media is a minefield for U.S. midterms https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/national-us-midterm-elections-bots-trolls-fake-news-1.4863258 19 comments politics
- ‘Bot holiday’: Covid disinformation down as social media pivot to Ukraine | Social media https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/04/bot-holiday-covid-misinformation-ukraine-social-media 18 comments europe
- ‘Bot holiday’: Covid disinformation down as social media pivot to Ukraine | Social media https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/04/bot-holiday-covid-misinformation-ukraine-social-media 13 comments worldnews
- Social media giants pressed on foreign bots after memo campaign http://thehill.com/policy/technology/370993-social-media-giants-pressed-on-foreign-bots-after-memo-campaign 4 comments politics
- Lies and propaganda are spread like never before because of bots exploiting social media http://en.ejo.ch/latest-stories/bots-lies-and-propaganda-the-new-misinformation-economy 7 comments politics
- Sen. Klobuchar: Fining social media for bots 'great idea' https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-klobuchar-fining-social-media-bots-great-idea-n851041 289 comments politics
- Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis, USC study reveals https://news.usc.edu/164317/cannabis-health-social-media-bots-fake-claims/ 5 comments technology
- Foreign social media bots spreading fake news about Netanyahu's rivals: report https://www.timesofisrael.com/foreign-social-media-bots-spreading-fake-news-about-netanyahus-rivals-report/ 4 comments worldnews
- All Eyes On Kushner, As Questions Arise About Security Clearance And Russian Social Media “Bots” http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/07/17/eyes-kushner-questions-arise-security-clearance-russian-social-media-bots 8 comments politics
- Recently a Blockstream board member was caught funding a bot campaign to manipulate social media and sway an election in the U.S. https://coinspice.io/news/blockstream-board-member-apologizes-for-russian-bot-campaign-in-alabama? 94 comments btc
- Papua unrest: Social media bots 'skewing the narrative’ to promote pro-government agenda https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49983667 3 comments worldnews
- Russian Bots Promote Pro-Gun Messages on Social Media in Wake of Florida School Shooting http://ktla.com/2018/02/16/russian-bots-promote-pro-gun-messages-on-social-media-in-wake-of-florida-school-shooting/amp/ 18 comments politics
- The aftermath of the Parkland mass shooting exemplifies the ugly side of social media - Bots. Conspiracy theories. Bullying. We’re seeing it all. https://www.recode.net/2018/2/20/17034386/parkland-florida-mass-shooting-ugly-side-social-media-facebook-twitter-stoneman-douglas-high-school 96 comments technology
- Social media bots "generated and promoted violent content aimed at Independentists, ultimately exacerbating social conflict online" during the Catalan independence referendum in 2017 (pnas.org) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/11/19/1803470115#sec-1 3 comments geopolitics
- Social media bots and Russian trolls promoted discord and spread false information about vaccines on Twitter, using tactics similar to those at work during the 2016 United States presidential election, according to new research. https://mediarelations.gwu.edu/research-finds-bots-and-russian-trolls-influenced-vaccine-discussion-twitter 8 comments science
- Engadget with its typical shitty "journalism" of just reposting what its parent company tells them to without any fucking research, do not trust Engadget or AOL. Title: Social media bots may have fuelled the GameStop stock frenzy https://www.engadget.com/social-media-bots-gamestop-stocks-182411035.html 4 comments wallstreetbets
- China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign - Inside the CCP’s use of social media bots and other disinformation tactics to promote its own response to the coronavirus pandemic and attack its critics https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda 7 comments politics
- Malicious bots are the primary pathogen of COVID-19 misinformation on social media. The team found that the Facebook groups most influenced by bots averaged 4.28 seconds between shares of identical links, compared to 4.35 hours for the Facebook groups least influenced by bots. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/esc-smb060421.php 11 comments science
- A USC analysis of tens of thousands of cannabis-related posts on Twitter found that social bots regularly perpetuated bogus health claims on the platform, illustrating how false statements may drown out solid science on social media. https://news.usc.edu/164317/cannabis-health-social-media-bots-fake-claims/ 8 comments science
- Trump meets Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hours after tweeting conspiracy theories about company - The meeting came as the social media platform deactivated roughly 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jack-dorsey-meeting-twitter-ceo-russiagate-hoax-bots-a8883476.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#echobox=1556057443 10 comments politics
- Kremlin 'bot' accounts spread fake news 45,000 times since Syria gas attack - Russian-controlled “bot” accounts have bombarded social media with anti-Western propaganda 45,000 times since the chemical attack in Syria as part of a “dirty disinformation war” by the Kremlin. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/04/19/kremlin-bot-accounts-spread-fake-news-45000-times-since-syria/ 613 comments worldnews
- BuzzFeed News has uncovered a new network of suspected Twitter propaganda accounts – sharing messages about Brexit, Donald Trump, and Angela Merkel – that have close connections to the Russian-linked bot accounts identified by the social media platform in its evidence to the US Congress. https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/we-found-45-suspected-bot-accounts-sharing-pro-trump-pro?utm_term=.fv9dyrrwv#.bdykz66dj 215 comments worldnews