BuzzBot is an experiment, designed to help journalists connect with people on the ground at events. It acts as a Facebook Messenger bot plus a dashboard that journalists can use to send messages to groups of users and view aggregated responses.
BuzzFeed News and Open Lab deployed BuzzBot at the 2016 conventions.
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Written by Westley Argentum Hennigh-Palermo at the Open Lab
The Open Lab for Journalism, Technology, and the Arts is a workshop in BuzzFeed’s San Francisco bureau. We offer fellowships to artists, programmers, and storytellers to spend a year making new work in a collaborative environment.