More and more of this type of "trolling" for political influence is being automated. RIght now the bots are fairly easy to identify but they will become more s

More and more of this type of "trolling" for political influence is being automated. RIght now the bots are fairly easy to identify but they will become more sophisticated as some machine learning types get to work on them. I think this has already rendered Twitter especially useless as a barometer of public opinion, it is really a barometer of bot activity for the most part when it comes to politics (I'm thinking of the #ReleaseTheMemo stuff.) I am not sure how resilient Facebook is to bots, or if it is heading down the road that Twitter has taken. The rise of bots really destroys what was developing as a means of mass empowerment. Basically any political movement (such as the Arab spring) that starts on Twitter or Facebook now you have to suspect is being run by influence agents, rather than real people.