Democracy is under threat from bots. This is why.

  • Kevin D. O'Gorman
  • Hadley Newman

Press/Media: Research

Description

Propaganda bots posing as people are increasingly being used on social media to sway public opinion around the world. So says new research from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, which found automated accounts and other forms of social media propaganda are rife in Russia, the US and Germany among other countries.

Period26 Jun 2017

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Keywords

  • Social Media
  • politics
  • marketing
  • bots