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1/ Russian bots have no First Amendment protections and should be outlawed. ‘Bot speech’ was and is being used to undermine our democracy. For eg, on Election Day, Twitter bots sent out the hashtag #WarAgainstDemocrats more than 1,700 times.
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2/ AI expert Matt Chessen points to the ways that machine learning enhances computational propaganda, providing “radically enhanced capabilities to manipulate human minds.” atlanticcouncil.org/publications/r…
3/ Bots’ ability to spread through social media by using algorithms to replicate bots and repeat bot speech, results in insidious artificial amplification of false confirmation bias. See, eg: cjr.org/analysis/breit…
