An enlightening article in MIT’s Technology Review on the work done by Chengcheng Shao and colleges at Indiana University on the impact of Social Bot Nets focusing on the propagation of news from 122 identified fake news sites into social media. This was then weighted against 15.000 stories from accredited news sites for comparison and setting up platforms to keep real and bot users apart in the analysis. Interesting read.
Social Bots and the creation of fake news
