BotSlayer

[Fil Menczer]

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new tool called BotSlayer
from our Observatory on Social Media:

https://news.iu.edu/stories/2019/09/iub/releases/12-botslayer-launch.html

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential
manipulation of information spreading on Twitter. It can be used, for
example, by journalists, corporations, and political candidates to
discover in real-time new coordinated campaigns in their domains of
interest, without any prior knowledge of these campaigns. The system
is easily installed and configured in the cloud to monitor bot
activity around a standing user-defined query. All you need is a
Twitter developer app key to fetch data from the Twitter streaming
API.

BotSlayer uses an anomaly detection algorithm to flag hashtags, links,
accounts, and media that are trending and amplified in a coordinated
fashion by likely bots. A Web dashboard lets users explore the tweets
and accounts associated with suspicious campaigns via Twitter,
visualize their spread via Hoaxy, and search related images and
content on Google.

BotSlayer is designed as a crowdsourcing platform: in exchange for the
free service, the system provides anonymous data back to our lab for
research, in a way that is compliant with Twitter=E2=80=99s terms and
guidelines. The data will aid in the study and early detection of
social media manipulation phenomena.

To get BotSlayer: http://go.iu.edu/BotSlayer

-OSoMe Team