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With new reports about bots interfering in social media every day, tools are popping up for verifying an account’s identity, but which ones to trust?
Our list picks 3 of the most trusted tools to help you guard against bots *and* against false positives: https://t.co/8ERGhDE19t
Austria plans to force large social & traditional media to verify their users’ identity as a bar to hate speech… wonder how many will turn out to be bots? 🤔
https://t.co/Gq4E63M763
Europe is bracing for a Russian propaganda onslaught in the run-up to May’s parliamentary elections. The European Commission predicts the Kremlin’s disinformation operations will be “systematic, well-resourced and on a different scale to other countries.” https://t.co/wQAmpO0aTF
One for our friends in the EU27 as EP elections approach:
https://t.co/CgXJfVxVUX
check if your favourite EP candidate has signed the pledge against using tech to undermine democracy
In case you missed it, @Gizmodo
have this excellent piece on the depth and breadth of ad-targeting now happening on Facebook #TheMoreYouKnow
https://t.co/NKbCulCfpU
Interesting piece in @euobs looking at scope for mischief in upcoming EU elections
https://t.co/7RcWcYlZCi
"Their mission is rather clear: to post as much as possible, to manipulate public opinion and leave no traces to identify their actual operators."
Bots aren’t just here on Twitter, and they aren’t always malevolent, the trick is in *knowing* when you’re interacting one.
As well as our Twitter checking tools @guardian
has this handy primer on spotting bots in the wider world in case you missed it:
https://t.co/QR3M1PhNv1
via @EURACTIV https://t.co/6yS7XUjgq6
EU citizens are “well aware of the dark forces that would like to manipulate what they read, think and ultimately vote for.”
we agree - and aim to help with our guide to bot-sniffing tools at https://t.co/jnM2wLe3eN