Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part II: Political Bots

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Next in our series Good Bot, Bad Bot: the possibilities of bots being used in governments around the world. How can bots increase transparency and shine a light on corruption, such as insider trading, among our elected officials? Will bots be put on the ballot in the near future? We go into all of this and more in this installment of Good Bot, Bad Bot.

****** Credits: This episode was written and produced by Grace Tatter. Mixing and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson are the co-hosts.

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1:19.0	There are more than a half million elected officials in the United States and they get into all sorts of trouble.
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