Bots & Ballots

Bots & Ballots

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Bots & Ballots episodes

  • Angie Drobnic Holan on how Donald Trump broke fact-checking
    A conversation with Angie Drobnic Holan, Editor of PolitiFact, about how lies and misinformation can clog the conversation and keep out the real news and how Facebook and Google are helping fact-checkers.

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    12 min
  • Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says Trump won't acknowledge threats
    Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says it's being left to companies to fight online propaganda. And Representative Derek Kilmer on the chances the Honest Ads Act will pass before the elections.

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    16 min
  • Samuel Woolley says that bots are already wrecking the 2018 midterms
    Samuel Woolley, Director of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab, Institute for the Future, talks about bots — foreign and domestic — and how they are poisoning political conversation around the world. 

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    15 min
  • Bots & Ballots Trailer
    Bots & Ballots from Yahoo News will launch June 20th, 2018! Look out for new episodes every Wednesday.

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    1 min

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In the digital era, information and the social media platforms used to spread it have become weapons of choice for those seeking to short circuit American democracy. Yahoo News' new weekly…