System to detect, assess and counter disinformation

A system for bots to execute Turing tests, comprising:

• a memory configured to manage a knowledgebase;
• and
• one or more processors, configured to:
• provide a bot that challenges other identities on one or more social media platforms with a Turing Test-style protocol configured to publicly expose other bots and trolls as inauthentic with respect to a demographic asserted by the other bots and trolls on the one or more social media platforms through engagement with the other identities from use of the one or more social media platforms, comprising:
• a bot definition, instantiation and management mechanism configured to instantiate the bot across the one or more social media platforms;
• a dialog system configured to provide chat functionality for the bot;
• and
• a multimedia object renderer configured to render multimedia;
• wherein the Turning Test-style protocol comprises:
• identifying target identities that assert or imply specific demographic characteristics or expertise;
• generating demographic-specific challenge questions tailored to the asserted or implied demographic characteristics or expertise;
• and
• publicly posting the challenge questions as direct responses to posts made by the target identities.