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
Last updated on July 13th, 2021
