An experiment in fighting racism on Twitter
&gt; &quot;I used Twitter accounts I controlled (“bots,” although they aren’t acting autonomously) to send messages&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a shame they over-hyped the title and made it all clickbaity. The post itself clearly states that they are not autonomous and therefore not programmed. Possibly not helped by the use of the word &quot;bot&quot; over and over. Am I right in saying &quot;bot&quot; implies autonomous?<p>That aside, interesting short read with a fairly intuative result. Good to see it backed up with actual research. Though it doesn&#x27;t mention how many accounts were targetted during the research.<p>Is there potential a way of analysing messages for racism in the same way some do sentiment analysis? Is it the same sort of problem? Not even a beginner in the field, let alone an expert!