How Twitter bots affected the US presidential campaign
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 07:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Key to democracy is public engagement – when people discuss the issues of the day with each other openly, honestly and without outside influence. But what happens when large numbers of participants in that conversation are biased robots created by unseen groups with unknown agendas? As my research has found, that's what has happened this election season.