Indiana University informatics expert wants unified effort to battle pernicious social media misinformation
Social Media and Democracy articles on Democracy Chronicles
This Social Media and Democracy section highlights the ongoing saga of how this new type of communications technology impacts the progress of free and fair elections across the globe. Whether social media brings benefit or harm to democracy is an area of heavy debate. Be sure to also check out our Election Technology section and our articles on Technology Dissidents, the Internet and Voting or Journalism and Free Speech.
Vote Transparency and the Twitter Bots Disclosing Info on Donors
The apparent goal is sunshine — a more sinister objective may be intimidation by Twitter bots
The Numbers Behind Major Candidate Twitter Followers
Twitter and Facebook should come up with programs that allow users to easily find out which other users are fake and which ones are real. This is the only way to display an accurate statistic as to how popular the candidates actually are
Silicon Valley Reassessing Social Media’s Power Post Vote
Value of traditional polling is among practices that have come under question following rise of social media’s power
Post Election Facebook Tensions: Block, Mute and Unfriend
Political divide in America may be reinforced as post election Facebook turbulence resets social friendships
Election Skewing Software Robots Try to Impact Social Media Debate
700,000 operational bots have been discovered pretending to be human to control the social media debate
New Algorithm Designed to Fight Social Media Propaganda
University of Texas at San Antonio created a method to battle type of social media propaganda known as astroturfing
Physicists Promise Accurate Election Predictions Using Twitter
New analytical tools by physicists at the City College of New York promise accurate election predictions with Twitter
New Twitter Algorithm Predicts State Elections and Voter Intention
Northwestern University computer scientists have created a wholly revolutionary Twitter algorithm
Donald Trump Twitter Bot Wants to Be President
Pro-Hillary group launch a mock presidential campaign for their widely followed Donald Trump Twitter bot