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Social bots and the spread of fake news

Christopher Torres-Lugo

Observatory on Social Media

Marvin

Bots

fact-checking low-credibility

15,053 articles 389,569 claims

1,133,674 tweets 13,617,425 tweets

kmin=5, N=52,452PLoS ONE 2018

Report: three million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens

Nature Communications 2018

Humans retweet bots as often

as they retweet humans

Humans do most of the retweeting

#SB277CACM 2016

breaking up the botnet

10%

Sune's student bot

Introducing BotSlayer

Docker image running on AWS

DatabaseStreaming

filteringAPI

Real-time statistics dashboard

Research data collection API

Coordinated trend event

reports

Entity extractor

Anomaly detector

Client API

BotSlayer architecture

osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/botslayer/

Journal of Open Source Software 2019

Examples

2019-07-10 11AM, attack on Bill Browder and Kamala Harris

Attack on Bill Browder

Visualization by Hoaxy

Coordination Detection Framework

4

Id

Name

@Handle

Creation Date...

1  

User ID Trace

2  

User ID Feature

3  

Project

Cluster

EngineerExtract

...

Framework applicationsFlorida, POTUS, BackfireTrump, Florida,

POTUS,BackfireTrump, Illinois, POTUS,

BackfireTrump, Missouri, POTUS,

BackfireTrump, Washington, POTUS,

BackfireTrump, Texas, POTUS, BackfireTrump,

Tennessee, POTUS, BackfireTrump, Virginia,

POTUS, BackfireTrump

CreepyJoeBiden, LasVegas, Trump,

Houston, Trump, TedCruz, Trump,

Houston, MAGARally, TedCruz,

Facebook, America, DeepState,

Trump, Trump, Obama, Trump,

CreepyPornLawyer,

MichaelAvenatti,

CreepyPornLawyer,

MichaelAvenatti, Texas, Trump,

MAGARally

Hashtag coordination Image coordination

osome.iuni.iu.edu

Marcella Tambuscio

Thanks!