Bots. Nick Monaco

automated behavior on a local computer, automating things like cursor movement and keyboards (Kiehl, 2012; Sweigart, 2015, pp. 438–439). However, like using automated browser software, this is a more time-consuming and difficult way to build a bot that generally requires developers with significant technical skill.

      13 13 As Gorwa and Guilbeault note, researchers sometimes choose to write social bot as one word, socialbot (2018).

      14 14 The term propaganda itself is similar in this way – while the English term carries an exclusively negative connotation, in other languages such as Chinese, the term for “propaganda” (宣傳) is more neutral in tone, with a sense of general promotion or public relations of any sort (Jack, 2017).