Avaaz: Fb continues to fail at flagging false and deceptive posts about U.S. elections
According to nonprofit group Avaaz, Facebook is failing to flag false information about the upcoming US special elections in Georgia. Read More
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Examine identifies 1000’s of Twitter bots amplifying conspiracy theories forward of the U.S.…
A new study by researchers at the University of Southern California found that bots are influencing the US election discussions on Twitter. On more than 240 million election-related tweets, the co-authors identified thousands of…
How bots threaten to derail the 2020 U.S. elections
In an article published last year in Nature Communications magazine, New York City College researchers examined the prevalence of fake news on Twitter in the months leading up to the 2016 US election, based on a record of 171 million…