Nov 13, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Tauhid Zaman Even a few bots can shift public opinion in big ways according to new research from Tauhid Zaman. Nearly two-thirds of the social media bots with political activity on Twitter before the 2016 U.S. presidential election supported Donald Trump. But all...
Aug 23, 2018 | Politics & Society, Referee
By Pamela Williamson The mechanisation of bots to power political messaging is a very new phenomenon, although propaganda during war has been around for a long time. The seminal work of Harold Laswell in 1927 described propaganda as: “…. the management of collective...