[PDF][PDF] Bots and Automation over Twitter during the US Election

PN Howard, B Kollanyi, S Woolley - … propaganda project: Working …, 2016 - philhoward.org
… This sample allows us to draw some clear conclusions about the character and process of
political conversation over Twitter during the election. Specifically, we are able to both parse …

Algorithms, bots, and political communication in the US 2016 election: The challenge of automated political communication for election law and administration

PN Howard, S Woolley, R Calo - … of information technology & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… While we know there are large numbers of bots active on twitter, the impact of social bots
has been difficult to measure. The impact of political bots—which we define as automated

Bots and automation over twitter during the second us presidential debate

P Howard, B Kollanyi, S Woolley - COMPROP Data Memos, 2016 - ora.ox.ac.uk
… With this sample we can draw some conclusions about the character and process of
political conversation over Twitter during the second debate. Specifically, we can parse out the …

Social bots distort the 2016 US Presidential election online discussion

A Bessi, E Ferrara - First monday, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
… of volume of tweets present in our dataset, during three … , during which we collected data
from Twitter. The figure also provides annotation of the four political debates occurred during

Brexit and bots: characterizing the behaviour of automated accounts on Twitter during the UK election

M Bruno, R Lambiotte, F Saracco - EPJ Data Science, 2022 - epjds.epj.org
… We found that the presence of automated accounts infected the debate particularly in …
elections, in which we find a steep increase of bots in the discussion; in the days after the election

Identification of twitter bots based on an explainable machine learning framework: the US 2020 elections case study

A Shevtsov, C Tzagkarakis, D Antonakaki… - … on web and social …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
… popular users and Twitter mentions (Stella, Ferrara, and … over a large collected dataset, to
detect bot Twitter accounts. We identify and analyze Twitter bots during the US 2020 Elections

Automated diffusion? Bots and their influence during the 2016 US presidential election

O Boichak, S Jackson, J Hemsley… - … Digital Worlds: 13th …, 2018 - Springer
over 300 million tweets from candidates and the public from the US presidential election,
we … the strategic advantages of different types of automated accounts. We approach this by …

Bots and computational propaganda: Automation for communication and control

SC Woolley - … and democracy: The state of the field, prospects for …, 2020 - books.google.com
… role in international political communication at present. Bots have been used over Twitter and
… and attack dissidents in Mexico, for instance, since at least 2012 (Orcutt 2012; Treré 2016). …

Junk news and bots during the German parliamentary election: What are German voters sharing over Twitter?

L Neudert, B Kollanyi, P Howard - 2017 - ora.ox.ac.uk
during important policy debates, elections, and political crises. We collected Twitter data on
bot activity and junk news using … in Germany, conversation about politics on Twitter does not …

Automating power: Social bot interference in global politics

SC Woolley - First Monday, 2016 - firstmonday.org
during political crises, elections, and conflicts in order to interrupt the efforts of activists and
political … This paper conducts a content analysis of available media articles on political bots in …