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

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

Released Friday, 6th December 2019
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Episode 5 - Social Media Bots Part 2: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers

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

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

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

Friday, 6th December 2019
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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.

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