Tag Archives: Bots

NY AG Finds Use of Bots, Sock-Puppets Illegal

Astroturf was again in the news last week, but not because the big game whose name we can’t mention was played on synthetic turf. Rather, last week, the office of the NY Attorney General (“AG”) announced it reached a precedent-setting … Continue reading

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Social Media Bots Are Here

Social media bots may seem like a futuristic phenomenon or something belonging only in the TV series “Homeland,” but they’re already here affecting businesses and individuals online. Last month, the New York Times reported on its investigation into the selling of fake Twitter followers and retweets … Continue reading

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A primer on political bots: Part one

Data Drive Journalism – “The rise of political bots brings into sharp focus the role of automated social media accounts in today’s democratic civil society. Events during the Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. Presidential election revealed the scale of … Continue reading

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Should AI Bots Be Providing Call Center Service?

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Yale Law School, From Mad Men to Mad Bots: Advertising in the Digital Age

Welcome Remarks Laura DeNardis, Yale Information Society Project Technology, advertising, and social control. Info tech has a profound effect on advertising, and businesses are redesigning advertising and how it works. Targeted ads; new tech can test and measure reactions in … Continue reading

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