Detecting Bots and Assessing Their Impact in Social Networks

Bots Impact Opinions in Social Networks: Let’s Measure How Much There is a serious threat posed by bots that try to manipulate opinions social networks. In “Assessing the of on Networks,” Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, David Scott Hunter, Zakaria el Hjouiji, and Tauhid Zaman present new set operational capabilities detect these measure their impact. They developed an algorithm based Ising model from statistical physics find coordinating gangs then created opinion dynamics models quantify impact have network. applied algorithms variety real network data sets. found that, for topics such as Brexit, had little impact, whereas U.S. presidential debate Gilets Jaunes protests France, significant