fake news
A caravan of bots, and other news from the misinformation wars
Despite the efforts of the social platforms, the bots are getting more active — and more subtle.
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Fake Followers: the black market in cargo cult influencers
There’s a great piece of reporting from the New York Times that’s been, quite deservedly, doing the rounds for the last couple of days, exposing the seedy underbelly of the influencer economy [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/100000005704904.app.html] . It’s been an
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Quartz unleashes the bots — as a journo's assistant
There’s been a lot of focus on bots — chat bots in particular — as news delivery vehicles. How about using them as news? Well, Quartz has something rather lovely coming for you [http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/quartz-created-a-bot-that-can-break-news-and-wants-to-help-other-news-orgs-develop-their-own/] : > At the Online News Association conference next month, Quartz plans