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The Future of Computational Propaganda

Feb 6, 2018
34:29
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
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The Role of Social Bots in Politics
03:49 • 2min
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The Role of Bots in Social Media
05:42 • 4min
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The Effect of Bots on Social Media Influence
09:15 • 3min
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How to Tell if an Account Is a Bot
11:48 • 4min
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How to Use Bots in Elections
15:46 • 4min
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The Cost of Buying a Bot Network
19:16 • 3min
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How to Rig an Election
22:13 • 1min
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The Future of Social Bots
23:43 • 3min
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Twitter and Facebook's Conflict of Interest in Dealing With the Bot Problem
26:28 • 4min
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How Twitter Can Address Disinformation Problems
30:02 • 4min
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Sam Woolley recently joined Institute for the Future as a Research Director and was previously the Director of Research at the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University. We asked Sam to share highlights of his research showing how political botnets—what he calls computational propaganda—are being used to influence public opinion.
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