Return of the Bots? A Computational Analysis of Political Twitter Bots in the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections

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Brief Overview

Detecting bot and troll Twitter accounts, analyzing their tweets during the 2018 midterms, examining how real users interact with them, and comparing how often these accounts post misinformation in Senate battleground versus non-battleground states.

Authors

• Ajay J Jain, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Sahil Bhatt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Jeffrey Justin Tu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign