20% of All Election Related Tweets Came From Non-Humans

INFLUENCERS

didge wrote:

INFLUENCERS

With the elections done, let’s take a look at one of the most prolific source of political tweets during the campaign period — bots. Yes, you may well have been retweeting or replying to bots. This isn’t so terribly novel, but notably, they can seem as passionate as you are, and they have been given an AI upgrade.


A study published by researchers at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute recently examined just how influential these bots were (and are). And according to the authors, Alessandro Bessi and Emilio Ferrara, their presence is profound. The sheer number of them is alarming. They found roughly 400,000 bots in Twitter, and they made a massive amount of tweets, which made them surprisingly capable of distorting online debate.well we know facebook was presenting fake news


According to the study, these 400,000 bots were behind 20 percent of all election related tweets. They were tweeting and being retweeted at a remarkable pace.




http://futurism.com/20-of-all-election-related-tweets-came-from-non-humans/

Flap Zappa wrote:or put another way 80% of tweets were not by bots. About par for the course.

The inference here though is that they were all republican bots

didge wrote:

Flap Zappa wrote:or put another way 80% of tweets were not by bots. About par for the course.

The inference here though is that they were all republican bots

Which shows how people have been easily manipulate, you included

Which shows you have no mind of your own, as seen by the fact you believe any bull you read, without fact checking

Poor baby Mentor

Flap Zappa wrote:
how do you know  I have been manipulated. Have you followed my timeline so much you know every tweet or retweet I have made.
Perhaps it is you that has been manipulated, which is more likely as you do seem to hold some very strange views.