Political Data Science

Bettina Köster vom Deutschlandfunk sprach mit mir am 20.08.2016 über Social Bots und falsche Freunde. Den Beitrag kann man hier nachhören.

@DeutscheWelle Video  http://dw.com/p/1JQCu The Video by Clemens Riha with "our" Trump-bots has been translated for DW. Location was @fokos_Siegen. 

@SimonHegelich im Interview mit @EvaMueh Eva Mühle hat mich (noch einmal) zu Bots befragt. Das Interview in der Wirtschaftswoche vom 19.07.2016 findet sich hier .

Max Muth & Laury Reichart haben einen spannenden und lustigen Beitrag zur schönen neuen Bot-Welt erstellt.  Besonders die Wortspiele zu Bots werden bis zum letzten ausgereizt. Mein Favorit: "Was ist die Hauptstadt der Bots? Bottrop!" Außerdem darf ich erklären, warum ich keine Angst vor Skynet habe. Bot's going on? | Bild: BR

In fact, it seems to be a good example for the unimportance of #SocialBots                                                                                                                   The paper by Philip N. Howard (@pnhoward) and Bence Kollanyi (@bencekollanyi) has brought attention to the topic of social bots, again. This is very important because bots are already active in all social networks and there is a real risk of manipulating political decisions with this tool.  Was the BREXIT-referendum manipulated by bots? Howard and Kollanyi answer this question with "yes, but just a little bit": "We find that political bots have a small but strategic role in the referendum conversations: (...

Hier findet sich der Kulturzeit-Beitrag vom 27.06.2016, in dem ich die Trump-Bots vorstelle: http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/themen/187568/index.html Und hier ist auch das Video:

Infiltrating the #filterbubble? Slandering Donald Trump and telling racist jokes seems to be the intention of a social botnet on Twitter. There have been different stories about bot armies supporting Donald Trump. @PatrickRuffini has posted a list with bots that are likely supporting Trump. @Wired has wrote about pseudo Hispanic bots , supporting Trump . But Donald Trump is also victim of slandering bots. Morteza Shahrezaye ( @ morry_shah )  and I have found a botnet with a strange behavior: The bots are telling jokes all the time of which many are very racist, disturbing anti-Semitic and sexist. In addition, the bots post “jokes” about Donald Trump, like: “Your moma is so dump, she voted for Trump.” There are at least three possible explanations for this: There might be a racist botmaster who thinks Trump is too liberal. It could be a “fluke”: The bots are just there to tell jokes but the internet is full with racist stuff and anti-Trump jokes, so this is just what th...