Episode 5 - Social Media Bots Part 2: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers

SmokeScreen is back! 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.

Show Notes

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.

What is Smokescreen?

Join me for a technical exploration of disinformation in a post truth world. From social media manipulation, to disinfo & misinfo, fake-news, and propaganda. We will also showcase the technology, people and platforms that seek to identify disinfo and surface objective truth.