5 bots that could change democracy

You may have heard about the Donald Trump bot army and the Twitter bots that have influenced elections in Latin America, but there are other bots out there, bots that connect citizens to services, bots that plan to crowdsource the election of a president or act as your personal assistant in government. They're going to change civil society, how people interact with government, and the self-governance of free societies. Here are five example of bots that have already impacted or will impact democracy. Dirty Water VT sends a tweet each time a sewage spill occurs in the state of Vermont. Trib IL CampaignCash sends a tweet any time a campaign contribution is made above 1,000 in the state of Illinois.