Week: Week 9: Randomness | Technologies for democratic society

Assigned reading: "The Sybil Attack" File

Assigned reading: "The Rise of Social Bots" File

Optional reading: "Who Watches the Watchmen? A Review of Subjective Approaches for Sybil-resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols" URL

Optional reading: "Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization" File

Optional reading: "Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion" URL

Optional reading: "Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election" URL

Optional reading: "The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News" File

Optional reading: "An Analysis of Social Network-Based Sybil Defenses" File

Optional reading: "SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks" File

Optional reading: "DSybil: Optimal Sybil-Resistance for Recommendation Systems" File

Optional reading: "Aiding the Detection of Fake Accounts in Large Scale Social Online Services" File

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