Bots accounted for 1/3 pro-Trump Twitter activity during 2016 debates

[Maraya1969]

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/07/28/study-bots-accounted-for-a-third-of-all-pro-trump-twitter-activity-during-the-debate/#.tnw_FvMNlwuJ



This semi-coherent baboon, for one night last October, reigned supreme; but was it of his own doing? Regardless of what the news outlets say — or your sensibilities tell you — for one night, Trump was king — at least on Twitter. But as with all things surrounding the 2016 Presidential election, it might not be that simple.

A University of Oxford study indicates he may have had some help in the form of pro-Trump Twitter bots. These deplorable-bots (can we make that a thing?) tweeted approximately 576,178 times, accounting for nearly a third (32.7 percent) of all pro-Trump posts that evening and in the four days to follow.

To identify the bots, researchers looked for accounts that exclusively posted messages containing hashtags associated with a particular candidate. There were over a dozen hashtags used for each of the candidates to help identify bot activity.

The top three for Trump were:

#AmericaFirst
#deplorable
#NeverHillary


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To be fair there were Hillary bots too but they were minimal compared to Trump. And the Trump bots are still on Twitter and need to go.

[underpants]

1. but is part of Russia and its governments support for Mr. Trump

-Rob Goldstone

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Notice each time there is polling problems with

Dipstick's numbers,these Russian Bots pop up . Gee,you would thing it was by design or something. Yah Right!

[dalton99a]

4. Yep.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Are they coming from a BOT site in Northwestern Wisconsin?

[Maraya1969]

7. That and Anti-Hillary "news" would start showing up on Google

Piss me off to no end.

Thank God we are all learning these things now.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Sure appears to be the case.

That and the Hillary story of her going to prison.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Sounds low to me...

[benld74]

6. Anyone with account can check real followers

Easily