Season 1 · Episode 42
Fil Menczer: From Artificial Life To Social Bots - 42nd Conversation
December 1, 20201h 1m
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Show Notes
Fil Menczer, professor and director of the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University, joined Michael and Dave on the day after the 2020 USA presidential election. Fil revealed how his 1990s Artificial Life research set the stage for his current work, focusing not just on the facts of disinformation and hoaxes and conspiracy theories and social bots, but also how to identify and fight them.
[Title image based on photograph licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 by Tracey Theriault]