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How Bots and Cyborgs Spread Misinformation: A Data Scientist Finds 5,000 Bots in 72,000,000…

How Bots and Cyborgs Spread Misinformation: A Data Scientist Finds 5,000 Bots in 72,000,000…: In this article, I have demonstrated how it is readily possible to identify social bots and cyborgs on both Twitter and Facebook using information entropy and then to find groups of successful bots using network analysis and community detection. Given the extreme risks of disinformation and propaganda being spread through social media, it is our hope that this approach, along with the work of other researchers, will enable greater transparency and help protect democracy and the authenticity of online discourse. I invite researchers who wish to collaborate on studies of these data sets to request access to become collaborators on our data project hosted on data.world.

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