Episode 5 - Social Media Bots Part 2: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers
Smokescreen
English - December 06, 2019 15:19 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBTechnology News Tech News disinformation misinformation post-truth social-media-bots fake-followers media-analysis active-measures Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
SmokeScreen is back! (for now) In this episode we follow up on Trumps fake followers and we're talking about the machine learning technique used to arrive at this number. Also talking about a social medias responsibility to address bots and spam. Some relevant links and show notes:
[1] https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016
[2] https://sparktoro.com/blog/we-analyzed-every-twitter-account-following-donald-trump-61-are-bots-spam-inactive-or-propaganda/
[3] https://sparktoro.com/blog/sparktoros-new-tool-to-uncover-real-vs-fake-followers-on-twitter/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
[5] http://www.ijmlc.org/vol7/646-LC0022.pdf
[6] G. Saptarshi, K. Gautam, and G. Niloy, “Spammers' networks within online social networks: A case-study on Twitter,” in Proc.World Wide Web Conference 2011, Hyderabad, 2011.