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The Rise of Social Bots.

Authors :
FERRARA, EMILIO
VAROL, ONUR
DAVIS, CLAYTON
MENCZER, FILIPPO
FLAMMINI, ALESSANDRO
Source :
Communications of the ACM; Jul2016, Vol. 59 Issue 7, p96-104, 9p, 2 Color Photographs, 1 Chart, 2 Graphs
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

The article discusses research on potentially malicious social bots that use artificial intelligence on social media networks. Topics include the use of bots to influence political opinion on the online messaging service Twitter, the creation of systems to detect social bots, and the use of crowdsourcing to find social bots.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00010782
Volume :
59
Issue :
7
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Communications of the ACM
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
116599170
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1145/2818717