Archiv: bots


19.11.2019 - 03:38 [ The Verge ]

Bot campaign on Twitter fuels confusion about Bolivian unrest

The messages, which appear in English and Spanish, all carry the exact same text, beginning with the words, “Friends from everywhere, in Bolivia there was no coup.”

20.03.2019 - 00:41 [ CBS SF ]

Facebook Apologizes After Mistaking Trump Social Media Director Dan Scavino For Bot

President Donald Trump also weighed in on Tuesday, tweeting that he would be “looking into” the issue with Scavino’s account, which had already been restored.

11.08.2018 - 10:32 [ Express.co.uk ]

NO PROOF! French NGO rejects claims Russia Twitter bots amplified Macron bodyguard scandal

The fact-checking NGO DisinfoLab said that while an “extraordinary” number of Benalla-linked tweets had been published, there was “no proof” Russian propaganda bots had been used to artificially amplify the scandal in an effort to hurt the Macron administration.

06.07.2018 - 14:28 [ Heise.de ]

Wenn Maschinen Meinung machen

Social Bots manipulieren unsere Meinungsbildung, Algorithmen definieren, welche Informationen das Netz für uns bereithält – wie weit reicht dieser Einfluss auf unsere Gesellschaft schon?

19.05.2018 - 12:40 [ Jonathan Tepper / Twitter ]

More and more financial “news” sites are basically bots churning out articles based on price activity. Totally useless. Almost entire first page of Google News has no real news