Emilio Ferrara's work in possible 2016 election consequences of fake Twitter bots has generated more than 40 news stories in international media, including the cover of MIT Technology Review.
A sampling of links:
- How the Bot-y Politic Influenced This Election - MIT Technology Review
- How Twitter bots played a role in electing Donald Trump - WIRED
- On Twitter, No One Knows You Are a Trump Bot - Fast Company
- A fifth of all US election tweets have come from bots - ABC News
- How hackers, social bots, data analysts shaped the U.S. election - The Nation
- How Twitter bots helped Donald Trump win the US presidential election - Arstechnica
- Election 2016 Belongs to the Twitter Bots - VICE
- BOTS 'SWAY' ELECTION Fake tweets by social media robots could swing US Presidential election - The Sun (UK)
- Software 'bots' seen skewing support for Trump on Twitter - The Japan Times
- US Presidential Elections 2016: Bot-generated fake tweets influencing US election outcome, says new study - Indian Express
- Elezioni Usa: il 19% dei tweet elettorali e prodotto da software - Repubblica.it (in Italian)
- Spotlight: Fake tweets endanger integrity of U.S. presidential election - XinhuanNet
- Robots behind the millions of tweets: "The integrity at danger" - Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish)
- Twitter bots distort Trump support - iAfrica
- Are Robot generated Tweets compromising US Polls? - TechRadar India