What are the methods twitter bots use to fool us, and what are some of the challenges in doing so?
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Sources:
https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/15587/14817
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/TwitterResponsetoCommitteeQFRs.pdf
Twitter updates total of Russia-linked election bots to 50,000
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/2016-election-update.html
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb37k4/twitter-facebook-google-bots-misinformation-changing-politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/arts/on-twitter-a-battle-among-political-bots.html
https://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-twelve-ways-to-spot-a-bot-aedc7d9c110c
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/29.pdf
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/30.pdf
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more-200-000-deleted-russian-troll-tweets-n844731
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