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the 34c3 talk "social bots, fake news and filterbubbles" comes to mind (unfortunately originally in German) The tl;dw of this is that when defining "bots", mos
by ATsch 9y ago
the 34c3 talk "social bots, fake news and filterbubbles" comes to mind (unfortunately originally in German)
The tl;dw of this is that when defining "bots", most researchers used very misleading metrics e.g. ">20 tweets/day" and the worries and studies about "social bots" shaping discussion on twitter are generally not founded in reality.
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_filterblasen https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...