We the…Bots and Trolls - Nick Monaco | The Open Mind

Oxford Internet Institute researcher Nick Monaco talks about the meaning of bots and trolls and their influence on contemporary society.

(Taped: 06/22/2017)

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This is both interesting, but also very skimpy on information. The "bot-or-not" website listed does not tell you whether an account somewhere is a bot, or give some kind of rating, it is kind of a joke that analyzes poetry. The only websites out there seem to be for analysis of Twitter accounts. Again, they talk about finding bots and trolls by IP address, but no user of a chat board has access to another user's IP address in most cases, and that is often a good thing. Some people have static, permanent IPs and you can track them to their homes by it. I am glad to see more time and space being allocated to this subject ... it is probably the most important subject in the world right now.