Junk News and Bots during the U.S. Election: What Were Michigan Voters Sharing Over Twitter?
Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms.[...]
Read moreBots and Automation over Twitter during the U.S. Election
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been[...]
Read moreBots and Automation over Twitter during the Third U.S. Presidential Debate
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been[...]
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Cracking the stealth political influence of bots
Among the millions of real people tweeting about the presidential race, there are also a lot[...]
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One in four debate tweets comes from a bot. Here’s how to spot them.
Our research was featured in the Washington Post online
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Donald Trump Twitter Bot Announces Candidacy For President
Donald Trump’s use of fourth grade-level language may be a powerful rhetorical tool, but his linguistic austerity has[...]
Read morePolitical Communication, Computational Propaganda, and Autonomous Agents — Introduction
The Internet certainly disrupted our understanding of what communication can be, who does it, how, and[...]
Read moreAutomation, Big Data and Politics: A Research Review
We review the great variety of critical scholarship on algorithms, automation, and big data in areas[...]
Read moreAs Artificial Intelligence Evolves, So Does Its Criminal Potential
Helped with a New York Times story on the role of AI in political and criminal communications.
Read moreBots and Automation over Twitter during the Second U.S. Presidential Debate
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been[...]
Read moreBots and Automation over Twitter during the First U.S. Presidential Debate
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been[...]
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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How Politicians Use Bots to Manipulate the Public
The CBC radio show Spark did an episode about the political bots project. Phil Howard studies political bots — social media[...]
Read morePolitical Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela
Social and political bots have a small but strategic role in Venezuelan political conversations. These automated[...]
Read moreParticipation, Civics and Your Next Coffee Maker
This is a response to the article by Ethan Zuckerman “New Media, New Civics?” published in[...]
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Let’s make candidates pledge not to use bots
Bots — chunks of computer code that generate messages and replicate themselves — have been infecting[...]
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