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Students use 'rage bait' and AI bots to sway fictional election

1 source1 article First seen 19 hours ago Updated 19 hours ago Australia Truth score 45

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Summary

A fictional election in "Kingstonia" is helping students at UNSW learn how to manipulate and sway voters on social media by using AI bots.

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Who is covering this

ABC News (Australia) Center Factuality: Very high AU 19 hours ago
Students use 'rage bait' and AI bots to sway fictional election
A fictional election in "Kingstonia" is helping students at UNSW learn how to manipulate and sway voters on social media by using AI bots.

Truth score

45/100Limited corroboration

Independent outlets: 1
Source reliability: 86/100
Sides of the spectrum covering it: 1/3
Propaganda risk: 0/100

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Centre 100%100%

Left: 0
Centre: 1
Right: 0
Not rated: 0

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Source quality

Average reliability: 86/100 (Very high)
Low-credibility outlets: 0%
State media: 0%
Opinion pieces: 0%

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Where the coverage comes from

Australia1