Pro-Clinton bots ‘fought back but outnumbered in second debate’
Helped with a BBC story on the battles between candidate bots....
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Un « bot » Twitter imite Donald Trump pour mieux le dénoncer
Helped with a story for Le Monde, on bots and computational propaganda....
Read more Trump’s Twitter debate lead was ‘swelled by bots’
Our research on highly automated Twitter account activity during the first U.S. Presidential debate was covered[...]
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Watch out for the Brexit bots
Our #Brexit work was featured in the Quartz piece “Watch Out for the Brexit Bots” on[...]
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Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote
Our work on Brexit Bots was featured in “Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing[...]
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These ‘bots’ could sway the Brexit vote
Our paper on Brexit Bots was featured in “These ‘bots’ could sway the Brexit vote” on CNBC...
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Soon Your City Will Know Everything About You
The world’s cities are collecting ever-increasing amounts of data. It’s time for mechanisms to prevent abuse.[...]
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A $1 Million Fight Against Hillary Clinton’s Online Trolls
Helped with a story on the Atlantic about Hillary Clinton’s response to online trolling....
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Bots Unite to Automate the Presidential Election
Donald Trump understands minority communities. Just ask Pepe Luis Lopez. He’s one of Trump’s 7 million[...]
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The Droids You’re Looking For: Bots as a Tool for Journalism
...doing the work. Early bots were designed by computer scientists to perform simple computer network maintenance,[...]
Read moreIdeaDrop at SXSW 2016
Phil Howard visited the Knight Foundation’s IdeaDrop house at SXSW 2016 to talk about his new[...]
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Idea to retire: A closed-platform Internet of Things
...policymakers need to move past the idea that the Internet is something that we experience through[...]
Read moreTalk to the National Endowment for Democracy
Here is the video of my book talk to the National Endowment for Democracy on February[...]
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How the Bundys’ social media machine fed their political movement
Helped with a Washington Post story on how social media is used by radical libertarians in the US....
Read moreTalk in Santiago, Chile
Here is a video of my book talk at the Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile on Thursday,[...]
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