The 2020 Election War On Bots and Trolls

The 2016 election exposed how social media could be used by a foreign adversary to sow dissent and distrust within American borders. In 2020, the fight against those threats rages on, and the number of players has expanded, abroad and domestically. At the center of the fight against misinformation and polarization on social media are bots and trolls, and understanding how they operate could be the key to fighting their influence.

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The 2020 Election War On Bots and Trolls

[davidbang]

Boomers as parents: "Don't trust everything on the internet"
Boomers now: gets political news from facebook

[SuperPlayz]

why you shouldn’t trust random things on the internet

[Palatineoffacts]

twitter censored biden laptop article but you wont mention that. disgusting

[uwu_senpai]

Reddit didn't fight against trolls. They just banned all right wing subreddits which is not fighting against trolls or bot but censorship.

[SirMelyinovsky]

Didn't reddit just straight-up ban many right-wing subreddits? That does not seem like the best aproach to 'fight trolls', so using it to exemplify 'cleaning up the internet' is quite biased.

[maemilev]

*We need Denmark to restart their troll trace program!*

[bishalgautam]

Its not only bots & troll thats dividing US media also played in major role in this divide.
Openly promoting particular candidate on mission basis.

[TheEnigmaticDeenTruth]

Reporting on the misinformation while misinforming the viewer.... How 2020. 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

[rd]

People need to learn how to debate and converse again with one another while respecting each others opinions and also acknowledging they are actually opinions and not opinion as fact.
Also anyone who thinks it's ok to be violent or perpetrate violence against others for having different political thoughts are NOT AMERICANS and know nothing about the founding of the nation and it's freedoms.

[FinancialShinanigan]

Can't wait for the election to be over so we can forget about this until 2024

[Jayb-xobp]

Why does the following show up when searching for Tony Bobulinski on CNBC's main website?
0 search result

[hellwithit]

From what I have seen.
A troll is anyone who disagrees with an individual or majority consensus. Be it not the correct definition- that’s what it has become.

[soundslikebstome]

The tapes are out. Whatcha gonna do now???

[kingjames]

Disinformation...
who gets to say what’s disinformation??

[mireyajohnson]

Who else is a student who has to watch this video for an assignment?

[XOPOIIIO]

Do you know why they're not banning flat earth theorists? Because they make no sense.

[dwichiesa]

How to separate trolls and influencers?

[ysfhero]

Great content again, keep up the good work. We need more of this kind of journalism .

[FURST]

Bots and Trolls have already disliked this video

[sprtbilly]

Companies with a strong brands are also contracting russia and china social media farms to push their products. Prusa a 3d printer co has this guerrilla marketing model.