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One in four debate tweets comes from a bot. Here’s how to spot them.

on October 26, 2016 at 11:31 pm

Our research was featured in the Washington Post online:

Philip Howard has a fancy name for partisan election bots. He calls them “computational propaganda” — and lately, he sees them a lot.

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