The 'bots' at heart of Twitter buyout row
Elon Musk's pausing of his bid to buy Twitter due to questions over "bots" has put the artificially-operated accounts at the heart of the proposed deal's latest controversy.
May 18, 2022
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News tagged with social media bots
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Elon Musk's comments about Twitter don't square with the social media platform's reality
On April 25, 2022, Twitter's board of directors accepted Elon Musk's US$44 billion hostile takeover bid. Twitter's statement announcing the deal included comments from the Tesla and SpaceX CEO: "Free speech is the bedrock ...
May 04, 2022
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Researchers develop a method to keep bots from using toxic language
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed algorithms to rid speech generated by online bots of offensive language, on social media and elsewhere.
Apr 21, 2022
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Social media bots may appear human, but their similar personalities give them away
Social bots, or automated social media accounts that pose as genuine people, have infiltrated all manner of discussions, including conversations about consequential topics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. These bots are not ...
Nov 24, 2021
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Microsoft patent would let us chat with the departed
A chilling episode of the Twilight Zone that first aired 60 years ago focused on a young boy (played by Bill Mumy) who frustrated his parents by insisting he speaks to his grandmother daily on the toy phone she had given ...
Jan 25, 2021 report
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Twitter users may have changed their behavior after contact with Russian trolls
In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, thousands of Twitter users changed their behavior after coming in contact with social media bots created by a notorious troll farm in Russia—adopting increasingly negative ...
Aug 06, 2020
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Study reveals behavioral differences between bots and humans that could inform new machine learning algorithms
Bots are social media accounts which are controlled by artificial software rather than by humans and serve a variety of purposes from news aggregation to automated customer assistance for online retailers. However, bots have ...
Apr 22, 2020
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Q&A with Kathleen Carley on the spread of coronavirus disinformation
Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, disinformation about the situation has been spreading at lightning speeds on social media. In the words of Kathleen Carley, a CyLab faculty member and a professor in the School of ...
Mar 26, 2020
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Cyborgs, trolls and bots: A guide to online misinformation
Cyborgs, trolls and bots can fill the internet with lies and half-truths. Understanding them is key to learning how misinformation spreads online.
Feb 07, 2020
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Bots might prove harder to detect in 2020 elections
USC Information Sciences Institute (USC ISI) computer scientist, Emilio Ferrara, has new research indicating that bots or fake accounts enabled by artificial intelligence on social media have evolved and are now better able ...
Sep 05, 2019
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