#social bots

[dragoni]

First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

Automated accounts are being programmed to spread fake news, according to the first systematic study of the way online misinformation spreads

Next step, figure out the good bots from the bad. Blacklist and block.

Fake news isn’t restricted to politics. It’s targeted at celebrities, businesses, science, medicine, education... The media needs to stop using “Fake News”. Call it for what it is; propaganda and LIES.

Link to the underlying research: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07592

These sites list 122 websites that routinely publish fake news. These fake news sites include infowars.com, breitbart.com, politicususa.com, and theonion.com. “We did not exclude satire because many fake-news sources label their content as satirical, making the distinction problematic,” say Shao and co.

To do all this, the team developed two online platforms. The first, called Hoaxy, tracks fake news claims, and the second, Bolometer, works out whether a Twitter count is most likely run by a human or a bot.

The results of this work make for interesting reading. “Accounts that actively spread misinformation are significantly more likely to be bots,” say Shao and co. “Social bots play a key role in the spread of fake news.”

[brasil-e-com-s]

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[cheshirecat-rabbit]

Social media manipulation rising globally, new report warns | University of Oxford

The manipulation of public opinion over social media platforms has emerged as a critical threat to public life. Around the world, government agencies and political parties are exploiting social media platforms to spread junk news and disinformation, exercise censorship and control, and undermine trust in media, public institutions and science.Now, a new report from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at Oxford University, has found that despite efforts to combat computational propaganda, the problem is growing at a large scale.

“The number of countries where formally organised social media manipulation occurs has greatly increased, from 28 to 48 countries globally,” says Samantha Bradshaw, co-author of the report. 'The majority of growth comes from political parties who spread disinformation and junk news around election periods. There are more political parties learning from the strategies deployed during Brexit and the US 2016 Presidential election: more campaigns are using bots, junk news, and disinformation to polarise and manipulate voters.'

(...) there is certainly a growing industry for fake accounts, online commentators, and political bots.'

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Buchempfehlung: "Wenn Maschinen Meinung machen". Michael Steinbrecher, Günther Rager (HG)

Buchempfehlung: “Wenn Maschinen Meinung machen”. Michael Steinbrecher, Günther Rager (HG)

Der Journalismus ist eh in der Krise. Was viele Ursachen hat. Doch damit nicht genug. Social Bots vermögen Menschen politisch zu manipulieren. Social Bots können im gewissen Maße sogar Wahlen beeinflussen. Wenn sich die Rezipienten via der sozialen Medien denn beeinflussen lassen. Big Data ist einem Begriff geworden, der einen angst und bange machen kann. Von „Fake News“ ist die Rede. Bei Social…

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[kayedeekaye-blog1]

Stob on

Since I was a teenager I can go no public place without some greasy guys hitting on me, buying me drinks, allowing me to look into the deep seas of their "souls" (mostly a little puddle from one pint of beer peed out), and the worst were the good ones, the poets, who managed to make my knees weak... well who am I telling this.

I was so happy to escape the greasy guys in the internet. I may be wrong, but I fear they found me: Social bots, knowing not more than one sentence. But they won't let me out again!

So here is my question from sister to sister: how can I get rid of them? Anybody knows a trick? A magic spell? I tried to spell their name backwards (see title). We'll see if it works.

[geraldfricke]

Ich bin in der Zeitung!

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Twitter Chatbots - IBM Watson - Reddit Most Addictive Cities

From Wikipedia A chatbot (also known as a talkbot, chatterbot, Bot, chatterbox, IM bot, interactive agent, or Artificial Conversational Entity) is a computer program which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods.[1] Such programs are often designed to convincingly simulate how a human would behave as a conversational partner, thereby passing the Turing test. Chatbots are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes including customer service or information acquisition. Some chatterbots use sophisticated natural language processing systems, but many simpler systems scan for keywords within the input, then pull a reply with the most matching keywords, or the most similar wording pattern, from a database.

The term "ChatterBot" was originally coined by Michael Mauldin (creator of the first Verbot, Julia) in 1994 to describe these conversational programs.Today, chatbots are part of virtual assistants such as Google Assistant, and are accessed via many organizations' apps, websites, and on instant messaging platforms such as Facebook Messenger.Non-assistant applications include chatbots used for entertainment purposes, for research, and social bots which promote a particular product, candidate, or issue. Actually Semantycs of Full On Net, emulates human behavior and interact with databases and ERP like SAP.

IBM Watson supercomputer

Watson is an IBM supercomputer that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated analytical software for optimal performance as a “question answering” machine. The supercomputer is named for IBM’s founder, Thomas J. Watson.

The Watson supercomputer processes at a rate of 80 teraflops (trillion floating-point operations per second). To replicate (or surpass) a high-functioning human’s ability to answer questions, Watson accesses 90 servers with a combined data store of over 200 million pages of information, which it processes against six million logic rules. The device and its data are self-contained in a space that could accommodate 10 refrigerators. Read Full Article: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/IBM-Watson-supercomputer

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