{"id":158239,"date":"2023-03-01T09:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=158239"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T13:04:24","slug":"wowser-check-out-darpas-bot-challenge-to-identify-influence-bots-supporting-a-pro-vaccination-discussion-on-twitter-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=158239","title":{"rendered":"<h2>WOWSER!!! <b>Check out DARPA&#8217;s bot challenge &#8216;to identify influence bots supporting a pro-vaccination discussion on Twitter&#8217; in 2015.<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;In the first quarter of 2015, DARPA conducted the Twitter Bot Detection Challenge: <\/p>\n<p>A 4-week competition to test the effectiveness of influence bot detection methods developed under the DARPA (SMISC) program.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge was to identify influence bots supporting a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SC8ne1gIBH\">https:\/\/t.co\/SC8ne1gIBH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZ25ga02X8\">pic.twitter.com\/xZ25ga02X8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kristen Ruby (@sparklingruby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sparklingruby\/status\/1628545543466061827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}