Emilio Ferrara’s work in possible 2016 election consequences of fake Twitter bots has generated more than 40 news stories in international media, including the cover of MIT Technology Review.

A sampling of links:

• How the Bot-y Politic Influenced This Election – MIT Technology Review
• How Twitter bots played a role in electing Donald Trump – WIRED
• On Twitter, No One Knows You Are a Trump Bot – Fast Company
• A fifth of all US election tweets have come from bots – ABC News
• How hackers, social bots, data analysts shaped the U.S. election – The Nation
• How Twitter bots helped Donald Trump win the US presidential election – Arstechnica
• Election 2016 Belongs to the Twitter Bots – VICE
• BOTS ‘SWAY’ ELECTION Fake tweets by social media robots could swing US Presidential election – The Sun (UK)
• Software ‘bots’ seen skewing support for Trump on Twitter – The Japan Times
• US Presidential Elections 2016: Bot-generated fake tweets influencing US election outcome, says new study – Indian Express
• Elezioni Usa: il 19% dei tweet elettorali e prodotto da software – Repubblica.it (in Italian)
• Spotlight: Fake tweets endanger integrity of U.S. presidential election – XinhuanNet
• Robots behind the millions of tweets: “The integrity at danger” – Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish)
• Twitter bots distort Trump support – iAfrica
• Are Robot generated Tweets compromising US Polls? – TechRadar India

Published on November 11th, 2016

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