Sophia Melanson Ricciardone

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University

Social bots, automated social media accounts, slip into our online conversations and imitate humans. (Unsplash)

September 23, 2025

Political parties are required to create privacy policies for handling voters’ data, but enforcement is up to them, raising concerns about oversight.

In our increasingly digitized world, how do we know whether the accounts we interact with online are other humans or bots? (Shutterstock)

July 24, 2024

Bots are increasingly prevalent on social media and are being used to spread political messages.