Rise of the ballot bots

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3080, 2016, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Britain has voted itself out of the EU. But in the build-up to last week's referendum, researchers became increasingly concerned about the impact of automated social media accounts attempting to sway the vote. Philip Howard at the University of Oxford and Bence Kollanyi at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, discovered bot accounts furiously sharing and promoting messages on both sides of the campaign.