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# Motherboard: The Bots That Are Changing Politics
- URL: https://johnwlittle.com/motherboard-the-bots-that-are-changing-politics/
- Published: 2017-11-02T19:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T21:59:30.000Z
- Description: Jigsaw, the Google/Alphabet think-tank, recently invited me and a handful of others to spend a day in New York City thinking about how to build a taxonomy for political bots. It was a productive day and a month or so later we made some of that work public in this essay at Motherboard.
- Author: John Little
- Tags: Information Warfare, Politics, Technology, Mentions, Journalism, Social Media, Misinformation, Computational Propaganda, Bots

[Jigsaw](https://jigsaw.google.com/?ref=johnwlittle.com), the Google/Alphabet think-tank, recently invited me and a handful of others to spend a day in New York City thinking about how to build a taxonomy for political bots. It was a productive day and a month or so later we made some of that work public in [this essay](https://motherboard.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/mb37k4/twitter-facebook-google-bots-misinformation-changing-politics?ref=johnwlittle.com) at Motherboard.