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Do you agree with Manjoo that Twitter bots may be a ‘growing and terrifying scourge on democracy?’ Explain your answer.

What problems might fake bot accounts create for a person following a political race on Twitter?.

If Facebook’s primary danger is its dissemination of fake stories, then Twitter’s is a ginning up of fake people.” Because a single Twitter user can create lots of accounts and run them all in a coordinated way, Twitter lets relatively small groups masquerade as far larger ones.

“Every tweet comes with a counter of Likes and Retweets, and users come to internalize these metrics as proxies for real-world popularity.

Read the excerpt below as a class and answer the following two questions:.

Was one of your responses that is has to be written by a real person? Read through the New York Times article by Farhad Manjoo ‘How Twitter is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation,’ which discusses the role of bots in influencing public opinion.

Brainstorm the following question as a class: What elements does a story have to have in order for it to go viral?.

Paper and writing utensils Procedure: Warm-up activities: Video: Cracking the stealth political influence of bots To invent a ‘helper bot’ that could be used to raise awareness of a problem in your community.

To understand the positive and negative consequences of the invention of the bot.

Students will learn about some of the issues surrounding bots and invent their own bot that will be used to inform and improve the public’s understanding of a key issue in their community. While it’s difficult to know what the overall impact of bots has been on public opinion, we do know that most Americans can’t distinguish between bots and real users. In this lesson, students will learn how computer scientists analyze tweets to tell which accounts are phony, automated bots and which accounts have real people behind them. How has the invention of social media affected the democratic process? Overview: Grades:Ĭomputer Science, Technology, Social Studies, U.S. Students will then invent their own bot to spread awareness about an issue they care about. In this PBS NewsHour lesson, students will examine how the invention of the bot on social media websites like Twitter plays a role in influencing public opinion. However, it has also created space for individuals to try to influence public opinion around a particular political agenda through the creation of by thousands of phony social media accounts, or computer-generated ‘bots.’Ībout 30 percent of social media users have been deceived by a bot at one point or another. The invention of social media has provided us with a wide range of opportunities to become more informed on key issues and engage in the democratic process.