Expert: Bots are poised to wreak havoc in the 2018 midterm elections
This is worse than the propaganda and disinformation spread via political ads on TV, or is it? Can we somehow get past the manipulation of elections? Can we live with it? What do you think?
American democracy still has a glaring propaganda problem.
Automated bot accounts that spread disinformation and sowed disgust and confusion among voters during the 2016 presidential election are poised to wreak havoc again in this year’s midterm elections, according to a leading expert.
This is worse than the propaganda and disinformation spread via political ads on TV, or is it? Can we somehow get past the manipulation of elections? Can we live with it? What do you think?