Tracking Disinformation by Reading Metadata
Amelia Acker, Data & Society, Medium, 2018/07/20
It's still pretty easy to distinguish between human spammers and bots (which is why the excuses given by Facebook and Twitter ring hollow). For example, "'Joey' has tweeted more than 500 times every day for three years." Pretty clearly a bot. More...
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