Political parties are required to create privacy policies for handling voters’ data, but enforcement is up to them, raising concerns about oversight.
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Bots that reply to online posts can help people connect with each other, but at the same time they also interfere with people communicating with each other.
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Bots have not just been used in the US, but also in Australia, the UK, Germany, Syria and China. To what extent – and how – are they affecting political discourse?
If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children’s lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
In addition to the meddling alleged in the new Mueller indictments, about one in every five election-related tweets was generated by software, not humans.
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