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Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections

Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 32 of the politics course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗

"lol 300 comments all saying the exact same thing in one minute, that guy's got mad rizz, everyone loves him" — what is more likely?

  • 1. It proves he will win the election — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Comments posted together are always from real friends — no support
  • 3. Many may be bots, and copies of one comment are not many people — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. He really has 300 fans who type exactly alike, because they all went to the same school — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

In Boston: "Wicked weird, Mom got a call in the President's voice saying don't vote." What is the best thing to do?

  • 1. Tell everyone not to vote either — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Call back and ask the voice if it is true — no support
  • 3. Check the vote on the official election office's site — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Stay home, because the voice sounded real — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

"delulu much? that pic's real, I can see it with my own eyes" — the picture has six fingers on one hand. Who is more likely right?

  • 1. The one who believes it, because eyes never lie — no support
  • 2. The friend who doubts it, because odd hands are a clue to AI — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 3. Neither, because pictures cannot be made with AI — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 4. Both, because a picture can be real and fake at once, depending on who looks at it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 10: «AI can make pictures of real people doing things they never did; strange hands, blurry writing and odd backgrounds are clues, but clues will not always work.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «pictures» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

What would happen if everyone believed any video could be fake?

  • 1. Every video would be checked automatically — no support
  • 2. All deepfakes would disappear overnight — no support
  • 3. Nobody could ever tell a lie again, because nobody would believe anything they did not see in person — no support
  • 4. People caught on real videos could deny what they did — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 4: «The flip side matters too: because fakes exist, people caught on a real video can shout "it's AI!", so "it's fake" is also a claim to check.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «catch» (+2); the same place «real video» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

In London: "Bare accounts posting all day and night about the election, all with the same stock photo, bruv." What should you think?

  • 1. They may be bots, so do not treat them as real people agreeing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 2. They prove most people agree with them — no support
  • 3. They are the official election office — no support
  • 4. They must be a big group of very keen voters who all use the same photo because they are in a club — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 13: «An account that posts day and night only about politics, with a stock photo and a new account, may be a bot, but no single sign proves it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «bot» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

A boy says, "Investigators said for sure that the fake accounts changed every vote in 2016." What is the better version?

  • 1. He is right, every vote was changed by them — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 2. The accounts were run by the voters themselves — no support
  • 3. It was reported that fake accounts ran; how much they changed is disputed — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Investigators said no fake accounts existed at all, and that the stories about them were made up — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 8: «People disagree about how much that meddling changed: some say it reached millions, others say it is hard to show it changed many votes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «change» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

"lowkey salty, my teacher said the politician video was real and I said it's AI" — the clip is on three trusted news sites with the full speech. Who is more likely right?

  • 1. The pupil, because every video now is AI — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The teacher, because trusted outlets have the full speech — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The pupil, because the teacher is a grown-up and grown-ups cannot spot AI videos — no support
  • 4. Nobody, because no video can ever be checked — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

In a cartoon, a villain uses a machine to copy the hero's voice and tells the town to stay home. Which real thing is like that?

  • 1. A class voting by secret ballot — no support
  • 2. A voice-clone robocall telling people not to vote — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. A fact-checker rating a claim as true — no support
  • 4. A newspaper printing a correction — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 9: «News reports said that in New Hampshire in 2024 a robocall used an AI copy of President Biden's voice to tell people not to vote in a primary, and that the peo…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «robocall» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

"Voting's moved to Wednesday, my mate's cousin sent it, trust." What is the safest step?

  • 1. Go on both days, just to be safe, and vote twice if you can — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Forward it to everyone in the family, just in case it is true — no support
  • 3. Check the official election office before believing it — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Believe it, because a cousin of a mate sent it and he knows stuff — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Which is true about clues like extra fingers or blurry writing?

  • 1. They always catch every single fake, forever, however good the AI gets — score 3
  • 2. They only ever appear in real camera photos, never in AI pictures — no support
  • 3. They prove a picture is real, because AI always draws hands right — no support
  • 4. They help, but AI keeps improving so they will not always work — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 10: «AI can make pictures of real people doing things they never did; strange hands, blurry writing and odd backgrounds are clues, but clues will not always work.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «clues» (+3); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Fill the gap: a crowd online can be a few people with many ___

  • 1. masks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. parties — no support
  • 3. ballots — no support
  • 4. cameras — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following most accurately characterises a "bot" in the context of online platforms?

  • 1. A journalist employed by a public broadcaster — no support
  • 2. A computer program which posts automatically whilst purporting to be a person — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 18
  • 3. A natural person who posts with considerable frequency, typically upon matters of sport or entertainment — score 16
  • 4. A device employed in the counting of ballots — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 18, against 16 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 1: «A bot is a computer program that posts by itself while pretending to be a person, and a troll farm is an office of people paid to post under fake names.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «person» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «computer program» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the phenomenon whereby the existence of fabricated media is invoked in order to deny authentic recordings.

  • 1. Astroturfing — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Satire — no support
  • 3. The liar's dividend — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. A correction — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Whereas a communication asserts that polling day has been altered, select the source most appropriate for verification.

  • 1. The official body responsible for the administration of the election — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The comments appended to the communication — no support
  • 3. The account from which the communication originated — no support
  • 4. Any acquaintance who received the same communication — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning foreign accounts at the 2016 United States election.

  • 1. It was reported that such accounts were operated by the electoral authorities in each of the fifty states — ← Mova's choice · score 3
  • 2. It was reported that such accounts operated, whereas the extent of their effect remains disputed — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. It was established that such accounts altered every vote cast — no support
  • 4. It was established that no such accounts existed — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 7: «It was reported by US investigators that a group in Russia called the Internet Research Agency ran many fake accounts pretending to be Americans around the 201…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+2); the same thing acted on «many fake accounts» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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