Presidential election irregularities in 2000, 2004 did not make people do anything but blame Ralph Nader. Nobody really gave a diddly ding dang except the paid for Brooks Brothers rioters in Florida. And now the “Russians” hoo hah barely registers, most of the blame falls on Sanders and Be...
Bots are under scrutiny because past studies have observed that they can be used to alter perceptions of political discourse on social media. Bots associated with Russia have been observed to have employed tactics to sow discord and support specific candidates during the 2016 US Presidential election...
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It started in the 1890s. Can their deployment offer us some kind of historical perspective on the current election? Certainly the cutting edge use of new media has been influential in presidential elections of the last 125 years. Understanding this can offer some engaging perspectives on campaign...
as truth, for corrosive attacks on the fabric of society as one portion of the network seeks advantage at the expense of others (think of spam and fraud, or of the behavior of financial markets in recent decades, or of the rash of fake news sites during the 2016 US presidentia...
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The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election remains to be clarified. Here, we use a dataset of 171 million tweets in the five months preceding the election day to identify 30 million tweets, from 2.2 millio
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presidential election ballots. This decision swayed the election in favor of Republican candidate George W. Bush. [Pictured: Texas newspapers reporting on the presidential race dated Nov. 27, 2000.] 2001: USA PATRIOT Act U.S. National Archives // Flickr 2001: USA PATRIOT Act Just a month ...
Journalist Ben NortonexposedYaku Pérez, billed as an indigenous eco-socialist, for his ties to the US government. After Pérez came in third place in the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election, disqualifying him from the runoff, the US embassycalled himto reassure that he would be ...