“A huge percentage of election-related talk on Twitter isn’t coming from humans. It’s coming from bots. And the majority of those bots are gunning for Trump to win the race, according to a paper released yesterday from Oxford University’s Project on Computational Propaganda.”
Read: On Twitter, Trump bots are out-tweeting Clinton bots 7 to 1
“A huge percentage of election-related talk on Twitter isn’t coming from humans. It’s coming from bots. And the majority of those bots are gunning for Trump to win the race, according to a paper released yesterday from Oxford University’s Project on Computational Propaganda.”
Read: On Twitter, Trump bots are out-tweeting Clinton bots 7 to 1
“For DeRay Mckesson and his fellow Black Lives Matter activists, Twitter is a double-edged sword. The social media platform has made it easy for Mckesson to post messages, amass a dedicated digital following (half a million strong, and growing), and influence real-world events.”
“It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled Tay — a Twitter bot that the company described as an experiment in “conversational understanding.”
Read: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day
“Say hello to a brand new Twitter. The company is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week, BuzzFeed News has learned.”
Read: Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week