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I made this icon by hand in less than two minutes, so I know it does not look cool. But you get the point.<\/p><\/div>We\u2019ve all seen them.<\/p>\n

We all hate them.<\/p>\n

But what if we created a \u201cspam\u201d Twitter bot for good?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my latest idea: What if we create a Twitter bot account that actively tweets at people who are spreading misinformation via Twitter?<\/p>\n

We know that vaccines don\u2019t cause autism, why not tweet a response (with a link) to someone making that claim?<\/p>\n

We know that Obama was born in the US. Let\u2019s tweet a response to someone tweeting about his birth certificate.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s then move the bot \u2013 or bots \u2013 into breaking news situations where misinformation, including images, spread quickly on Twitter.<\/p>\n

The way I see it, this isn\u2019t too \u201chard\u201d to do\u2026 but it requires a few things:<\/p>\n

Step 1: Create an account
\nStep 2: Identify misinformation
\nStep 3: Define pattern of misinformation tweets
\nStep 4: Craft 140 character response to misinformation tweets
\nStep 5: Repeat steps 2-4 for the next set of misinformation.\n<\/div>\n

Oh yeah, that whole coding a Twitter bot is perhaps the most important step.<\/p>\n

If this works, I can for see news organizations creating accuracy bots of their own battling misinformation.<\/p>\n

What do you think? <\/p>\n

More importantly, are interested in helping create this?<\/p>\n

I already did Step 1: @accuracybot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"