Politics 2.0: How Bots are Impacting Democracies
Want to know more about:
- What exactly is a social media bot?
- How might bots be influencing public opinion on political parties and happenings?
- Where are these bots coming from? Are they Australian or do they have international origins?
- Do we have any idea of the scale or proportion of automated bot campaigns?
- What does it mean for our democracy, accuracy of news, upcoming elections?
- What can social media companies be doing to combat the issue?
- How can we, as social media users, differentiate between AI or not, robot comments and human comments?
Citation: Katina Michael with Nick Rheinberger, “Politics 2.0: How Bots are Impacting Democracies”, ABC Illawarra: Mornings 96.7, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/illawarra-mornings/mornings/106853490