Fil Menczer: From Artificial Life To Social Bots - 42nd Conversation

<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Menczer" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Fil Menczer</a>, professor and director of the <a href="http://osome.iuni.iu.edu/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Observatory on Social Media</a> 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.</p> <p>[Title image based on photograph licensed <a title= "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0" href= "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-SA 3.0</a> by <a title= "personal photograph by Tracey Theriault" href= "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94067413" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Theriault</a>]</p>