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10 January 2017
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automation, bots, comprop, Digital Politics and Government, In the News, NPR, Publishing, Samuel C. Woolley, social media
Automated social media accounts known as ‘bots’ may be used to distort political perception online. We speak with research director Samuel Woolley of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Computational Propaganda Project to learn more about this phenomenon.