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Online manipulation techniques in 4 minutes

May 14, 2018



Elizabeth Dubois explains bots (machine code) and trolls (humans), and how these technologies impact activism campagins, grassroots activism, and astro-turfing in a democratic context. 

This is an excerpt of the larger Public Policy Forum panel discussion called "Breaking the news: How bots, trolls and other media manipulators threaten our politics".

Speaker: Elizabeth Dubois

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