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“It Doesn’t Matter Now Who’s Right and Who’s Not:” A Model To Evaluate and Detect Bot Behavior on Twitter

Bowen, Braeden
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1623686115831856

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2021, Bachelor of Arts, Wittenberg University, Political Science.
The 2019 Mueller Report revealed a campaign by the Russian Internet Research Agency to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and insert systemic distrust in Western democracy. The campaign engaged in “information warfare” using false accounts, or bots, to prey on inherent social vulnerabilities that are amplified by the novelty and anonymity of social media, such as echo chambers and the rapid spread of fake news. This thesis explores the aims, methods, effects, and behavioral patterns of bots. It also proposes BotWise, a model designed to distill average behavior on the social media platform Twitter from a set of real users and compare that data against novel input.
Tyler Highlander (Advisor)
Staci Rhine (Advisor)
Alyssa Hoofnagle (Committee Member)
Yu Bin (Committee Member)
35 p.
Computer Science; Political Science; Sociology; Technology
Bots; Twitter; social media; misinformation; disinformation; fake news; online social networks; chatbots; information warfare; Russian electoral interference; 2016 presidential election

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  • Bowen, B. (2021). “It Doesn’t Matter Now Who’s Right and Who’s Not:” A Model To Evaluate and Detect Bot Behavior on Twitter [Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1623686115831856

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bowen, Braeden. “It Doesn’t Matter Now Who’s Right and Who’s Not:” A Model To Evaluate and Detect Bot Behavior on Twitter . 2021. Wittenberg University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1623686115831856.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bowen, Braeden. "“It Doesn’t Matter Now Who’s Right and Who’s Not:” A Model To Evaluate and Detect Bot Behavior on Twitter ." Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1623686115831856

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