JungHwan Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

JungHwan Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

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University of Illinois communication professor JungHwan Yang and his research colleagues found that online political 'astroturfing,' a key component of Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, is easier to spot not by looking for 'bots,' but for digital traces of the humans behind it.

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