Social Bots - The Chair on Television

Our Thorsten Strufe helps to explain the phenomenon of social bots on the German news: http://www.mdr.de/mediathek/fernsehen/a-z/sendung699366_ipgctx-false_zc-ba8902b5_zs-73445a6d.html

The report of Sven Knobloch for "MDR Aktuell" discusses the potential impact of social bots in the political discourse. It briefly introduced the field of political social bots and other bots that are used for propaganda and advertisement. The report explains how easy such bots can be deployed, and how complicated it may get to reliably detect them - and highlights their threat to democracy.