In this episodes we discuss social bots and take a look at some recent (and not so recent) stories about Trump and his fake followers. show notes: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everyone-has-fake-twitter-followers-but-trump-has-the-most-sad/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/billionaire-gop-patron-behind-trump-social-media-bot-army-article-1.3236933 https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitters-pro-trump-bot-crisis-is-really-a-human-crisis?utm_term=.twaW76dGW#.shrmvJ6ym https://www.twitteraudit.com/ https://fakers.statuspeople.com/Fakers/FindOutMore/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/529461/how-to-spot-a-social-bot-on-twitter/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03107.pdf http://botornot.co/ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/how-i-learned-to-game-twitter