If you have enough money to do this you can get a bot that takes the place of people. So, you can pretend real people visited an article (which usually is fake). This is one of the ways Russians used fake articles and pretending millions of people visited them. They started by Bots visiting these articles from one or more computers to give the effect that actual people visited these fake articles. Once they did this they could incite violence through riots etc. through these fake articles because people saw the number of (supposed people) who had visited these articles but were really Bots masqueraded as people and mostly not real people. (At least in the beginning of the fake Viral Articles and videos that caused violence, riots and bad votes in the election. The Russians and other countries do this all over the world to create chaos or any outcome they want to create.
If you know this is happening then there is more chance that you can do something about it to protect yourselves and others from harm. There is also more chance you can protect your own governments from malicious harm too.
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Internet bot - Wikipedia
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An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone.
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Efforts by servers hosting websites to counteract bots vary. Servers may choose to outline rules on the behaviour of internet bots by implementing a
robots.txt
file: this file is simply text stating the rules governing a bot's
behaviour on that server. Any bot interacting with (or 'spidering') any
server that does not follow these rules should, in theory, be denied
access to, or removed from, the affected website. If the only rule
implementation by a server is a posted text file with no associated
program/software/app, then adhering to those rules is entirely voluntary
– in reality there is no way to enforce those rules, or even to ensure
that a bot's creator or implementer acknowledges, or even reads, the
robots.txt file contents. Some bots are "good" – e.g. search engine
spiders – while others can be used to launch malicious and harsh
attacks. For example, in political campaigns.[2]Contents
IM and IRC
Some bots communicate with other users of Internet-based services, via instant messaging (IM), Internet Relay Chat (IRC), or another web interface such as Facebook Bots and Twitterbots. These chatterbots may allow people to ask questions in plain English and then formulate a proper response. These bots can often handle many tasks, including reporting weather, zip-code information, sports scores, converting currency or other units, etc.[citation needed] Others are used for entertainment, such as SmarterChild on AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger.An additional role of IRC bots may be to lurk in the background of a conversation channel, commenting on certain phrases uttered by the participants (based on pattern matching). This is sometimes used as a help service for new users, or for censorship of profanity.
Commercial purposes
There has been a great deal of controversy about the use of bots in an automated trading function. Auction website eBay has been to court in an attempt to suppress a third-party company from using bots to traverse their site looking for bargains; this approach backfired on eBay and attracted the attention of further bots. The United Kingdom-based bet exchange Betfair saw such a large amount of traffic coming from bots they launched a WebService API aimed at bot programmers through which Betfair can actively manage bot interactions.Bot farms are known to be used in online app stores, like the Apple App Store and Google Play, to manipulate positions[3] or to increase positive ratings/reviews.[4]
Malicious purposes
Another, more malicious use of bots is the coordination and operation of an automated attack on networked computers, such as a denial-of-service attack by a botnet. Internet bots can also be used to commit click fraud and more recently have seen usage around MMORPG games as computer game bots.[citation needed] A spambot is an internet bot that attempts to spam large amounts of content on the Internet, usually adding advertising links. More than 94.2% of websites have experienced a bot attack.[2]- There are malicious bots (and botnets) of the following types:
- Spambots that harvest email addresses from contact or guestbook pages
- Downloader programs that suck bandwidth by downloading entire websites
- Website scrapers that grab the content of websites and re-use it without permission on automatically generated doorway pages
- Viruses and worms
- DDoS attacks
- Botnets, zombie computers, etc.
- Bots are also used to buy up good seats for concerts, particularly by ticket brokers who resell the tickets.[5] Bots are employed against entertainment event-ticketing sites. The bots are used by ticket brokers to unfairly obtain the best seats for themselves while depriving the general public of also having a chance to obtain the good seats. The bot runs through the purchase process and obtains better seats by pulling as many seats back as it can.
- Bots are often used in Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games to farm for resources that would otherwise take significant time or effort to obtain; this is a concern for most online in-game economies.[citation needed]
- Bots are also used to increase views for YouTube videos.
- Bots are used to increase traffic counts on analytics reporting to extract money from advertisers. A study by comScore found that 54 percent of display ads shown in thousands of campaigns between May 2012 and February 2013 never appeared in front of a human being.[6]
- in 2012, reporter Percy von Lipinski reported that he discovered millions of bot or botted or pinged views at CNN iReport. CNN iReport quietly removed millions of views from the account of so-called superstar iReporter Chris Morrow.[7] It is not known if the ad revenue received by CNN from the fake views was ever returned to the advertisers.
- Bots may be used on internet forums to automatically post inflammatory or nonsensical posts to disrupt the forum and anger users.
See also
- Agent-based model (for bot's theory)
- Botnet
- Comparison of Internet Relay Chat bots
- Facebook Bots
- IRC bot
- Social bot
- Software agent
- Spambot
- Twitterbot
- UBot Studio
- Votebots
- Wikipedia:Bots – bots on Wikipedia
References
- von Lipinski, Percy (28 May 2013). "CNN's iReport hit hard by pay-per-view scandal". PulsePoint. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
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