How a Simple Spambot Became the Second Most Powerful Member of an Italian Social Network | MIT Technology Review
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Encore une expérience clandestine sur un réseau social. Tous cobayes ;-)
It is not hard to see the significance of this work. Social bots are a fact of life on almost every social network and many have become so sophisticated they are hard to distinguish from humans. If the simplest of bots created by Aiello and co can have this kind of impact, it is anybody’s guess how more advanced bots could influence everything from movie reviews and Wikipedia entries to stock prices and presidential elections.