An automated army of pro-Donald J. Trump chatbots overwhelmed similar programs supporting Hillary Clinton five to one in the days leading up to the presidential election, according to a report published Thursday by researchers at Oxford University. CONT. John Markoff, New York Times Read more »
The real election hack fear
If you are expecting to feel relief from a long and tortuous election season on the morning of November 9, don’t. Expect instead to hear about a possible cyberattack on American democracy. We might be watching a slow trickle of election results poisoned by suggestions that they may not be […] Read more »
Voters Increasingly Turning to Internet for Information, Survey Shows
Voters have stepped away from the television and are digesting the presidential and Senate races through the internet, a new poll of persuadable voters in five Senate battleground states shows. The survey, conducted by the Global Strategy Group, a Democratic firm, and Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican firm, showed that […] Read more »
If They Google You, Do You Win?
Are voters misleading pollsters? Are there hidden Donald Trump supporters who could throw the election his way? Over the past few years, we have both become interested in how data from the internet, particularly Google searches, might be used to predict events. People also tell Google things — a lot […] Read more »
Trump’s Twitter debate lead was ‘swelled by bots’
More than four times as many tweets were made by automated accounts in favour of Donald Trump around the first US presidential debate as by those backing Hillary Clinton, a study found. … The investigation was led by Prof Philip Howard, from the University of Oxford, and is part of a […] Read more »
The Modern News Consumer
Wave after wave of digital innovation has introduced a new set of influences on the public’s news habits. Social media, messaging apps, texts and email provide a constant stream of news from people we’re close to as well as total strangers. News stories can now come piecemeal, as links or […] Read more »