Sentences with phrase «of social bots»

Menczer has been interviews by The New York Times on the use of social bots to sway elections and was sought out to consult on the topic by writers of the network television series «The Good Wife.»

Menczer has been interviewed by The New York Times on the use of social bots to sway elections and was sought out to consult on the topic by writers of the network television series «The Good Wife.»

«Are there thousands of social bots?

The use of social bots has gained widespread attention in mass media.

Flammini and Menczer said it's their belief that these kinds of social bots could be dangerous for democracy, cause panic during an emergency, affect the stock market, facilitate cybercrime and hinder advancement of public policy.

Not exact matches

Although there are millions of users posting valuable content on the social network, there are also countless accounts that are spam, bots, or worse — trolls who harass others or terrorists who use the platform to spread their propaganda.

He points to the impending arrival of «laser phishing» in which bots will perfectly impersonate people we know by scraping publicly available images and social media data.

The company currently operates a similar bot in China named XiaoIce that chats with 15 million of its 40 million followers on the social network Weibo.

On Jan. 27, 2018, The New York Times published «The Follower Factory,» a bombshell report that examines the purchasing of social media followers, many of which are bots.

But the use of bots to manipulate elections and political discussion via the major social media platforms is a new and unnerving trend.

On Feb. 16, Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed an indictment accusing 13 Russians of running a bot farm and disinformation operation that spread pro-Donald Trump propaganda on social media.

Social media companies — just like online publishers — have a vested interest in letting bots exist on their platforms because monthly active users are one of their main measurements of success.

And yet the bots march on, aided by a double whammy: murky laws governing their creation and sale, and social media companies that have too often turned a blind eye to the veracity of their reported user numbers.

Jonathon Morgan, New Knowledge, discusses the return of Russian bots on social media platforms pushing extreme rhetoric around the Florida high school mass shooting.

The Russian desk, which was primarily made up of bots and trolls, used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.

Some social media - savvy customers delight in tripping up bots and then embarrassing the company by posting screenshots of the awkward conversation online.

Karthik Srinivasan, the national lead of social marketing at Ogilvy & Mather India, thinks that 20 to 30 percent of influencers» followers are bots.

Devumi essentially buys fake accounts from a variety of «bot makers» and then sells them to customers looking to increase their social media reach for as little as a penny per account.

Democratic state Sen. Bob Hertzberg and Democratic State Assembly member Marc Levine have both introduced legislation that would require social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to identify automated accounts — essentially, a sort of sticker that says, «I'm a bot.»

Social media platforms, such as Twitter, which the U.S. president has come to rely on almost singularly to convey his political, military and economic messages, is rife with fake news inducing bots, which comprise nearly 50 million of the platform's users driving an outsized volume of site traffic.

Via Shaun Dakin, important news about Trump's and Clinton's social - media support around the last presidential debate: A University of Oxford study indicates [Trump] may have had some help in the form of pro-Trump Twitter bots.

Besides the «data for policy» community, there are two important research trends shaping the field: 1) computational social science; and 2) the emergence of politicised social bots.

These questions barely scratch the surface, because the complex interplay between general advancements of computational social science and hovering satellite topics like political bots will have an enormous impact on research and using data for policy.

A source at that anti-graft agency quoted the former BoT Chairman of the PDP as saying, in the letter, that the N260 million was a refund of the N400 million he disbursed, on the instruction of Jonathan to elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai; the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae; and the leader of the Accord Party, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, among others, for «special political assignments» ahead of the 2015 polls.

Gray and Gratch say next steps should include measuring not only people's explicit ratings of creepiness, but also their behavior toward social bots.

Through use of these features and examples of Twitter bots provided by Texas A&M University professor James Caverlee's infolab, the researchers are able to train statistical models to discriminate between social bots and humans; according to Flammini, the system is quite accurate.

If that's the case, a handful of bad actors may be leading a veritable army of social media bots, seeking to tip elections in country after country.

They identified human users from social bots by analyzing retweets or mentions, ratio of followers to followees, content and level of emotion.

Clark and colleagues, including data junkies Chris Danforth and Peter Dodds, always make an effort to clean bots from their analyses of social media, so they decided to hand - classify 1,000 of the e-cigarette tweets before setting a computer program to the task.

The researchers found social bots were more likely to post hashtags where people said they quit smoking as a result of e-cigarette use (#quitsmoking, #health).

Jon - Patrick Allem, lead author of the study, likened social bots to actress Jenny McCarthy and the «vaccinations cause autism» movement, an idea that has been debunked many times but still sticks.

«People need to be aware of these fake social media accounts, and public health campaigns should be implemented to counteract the most dangerous unhealthy behaviors these bots are encouraging.»

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What I'm doing next is modelling the social cost of these bots — how are they changing the nature and quality of conversations online?

The term «bot» is often associated with spam, offensive content or political infiltration, but many of the most reputable organisations in the world also rely on bots for their social media channels.

Russian social networks are full of ads offering «chat bots» for well known pay per letter dating sites.

Tinder has succeeded in bringing down the level of bots masquerading as attractive users and has decreased the level of spam afflicting the social app by 90 %.

The proliferation of «fake news» websites and social media «bots» means that students must sharpen their ability to evaluate documents.

The results include situations where bots spouted inappropriate gibberish at random people, to bots that got social media accounts deactivated for violating terms of service.

Twitter bots and fake likes on social media sites often do a lot of legitimate following and liking, to avoid suspicion.

Let assume that approximately 70 % of all Forex accounts on Twitter are either spammers that tweet the same thing over and over, something along the lines of «Get rich fast», «The guy made millions», or «Leave your day job» or bots that auto - tweet things and do not conduct any sort of dialogue on social media.

Many users may just be interested in the cooperative building and programming of bots and have no interest in the social features we provide.

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This online exhibition brings together recent software - based works that were produced as part of Rhizome's annual conference Seven on Seven, from a play for bots to an anonymous social network in the style of artist Bunny Rogers.

Mencap aims to improve access to social care and is therefore attempting to i) gather powerful data in order to influence local and national decision makers; ii) provide early advice with the help of solicitors and barristers working pro bono; and iii) improve legal education by training care managers to spot legal problems and developing a chat bot — an «automated legal brain» which is interactive and can provide information and rights and redress.

The 2017 edition of Attacks on the Press, published last week by The Committee to Protect Journalists, chronicles singular methods of controlling the flow of information, including financial pressure on journalists and news outlets, exploitation of legal loopholes to avoid disclosure, and wielding copyright laws and social media bots to curb criticism.

An Edinburgh - based legal tech start - up is looking for law firms and social sector organisations that want to put into action a new generation of chat bots aimed at helping clients and improving access to justice.

A group of researchers, as part of a social experiment, paid liberals and conservatives on Twitter to follow a bot for a month that tweeted political views from the other side.

Facebook has announced a bunch of camera effects, augmented reality developments, and chat bot - related updates for its properties.The social network's developer conference is here.

This obsession tracks those techniques, from the old - fashioned use and abuse of language to the deployment of bots, online crowds, and personalized targeting on social media — as well as the latest scientific research on persuasion, belief, and how information and ideas are spread.