Artists have told the BBC how their artwork is being stolen from social media and sold for profit online. They claim malicious individuals are finding their art, often with the aid of an automated system known as a bot, and uploading it on to a website where it can be sold on a T-shirt without… Read more »
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Researchers found evidence of Twitter troll activity in the last week of the Canadian federal election
Some of the most active #TrudeauMustGo accounts had profiles linking them with Trump and the American right Source: CBC News Date: October 25th, 2019 Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/twitter-trolls-maga-trump-2019-election-1.5334038 Discussion How did the research deduce that a tweet was a “twitter troll”? If researchers can figure out that someone is a “twitter troll”, why can’t Twitter figure this… Read more »
YouTube shuts down 210 channels posting about Hong Kong
Google announced Thursday that it had disabled 210 YouTube channels that were uploading videos “in a coordinated manner” about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.The announcement came three days after Twitter and Facebook announced they had shut down a network of hundreds of accounts that were posting content aimed at undermining pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Some of the accounts… Read more »
Feeling litt? Analyzing twitter feeds provides incredibly detailed results
The data available online is staggering. More than 20% of Americans were using Twitter at the time of the study – and each Tweet is timestamped and geocoded, offering precise information on the time and place that particular terms entered conversations. The researcher behind the study, Jack Grieve at the University of Birmingham, UK, analysed more… Read more »
The surprising new strategy of pro-Russia bots
Co-ordinated groups of Twitter bots pushing pro-Russian propaganda have developed an odd but occasionally effective strategy – retweeting messages that the bot-makers disagree with and flooding their enemies with followers. Source: BBC Technology News Date: September 12th, 2017 Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41203789 Discussion 1) Thinking of this from a digital marketing perspective, how could you use this methodology to help… Read more »
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