Strategies and Influence of Social Bots in a 2017 German state election - A case study on Twitter

Understand

As social media has permeated large parts of the population it simultaneously has become a way to reach many people e.g.

• with political messages.
• One way to efficiently reach those people is the application of automated computer programs that aim to simulate human behaviour - so called social bots.
• These bots are thought to be able to potentially influence users' opinion about a topic.