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Half of the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers

• seiferteric 6y ago
  I wonder how many of these bots are purposefully pushing an agenda vs bots that might just track trending topics and tweet related things to gain followers/retweets maybe for advertising purposes? Has anyone analyzed other trending topics to see what proportion are bots?
  • trekrich 6y ago
    bot vs bot.
• Nicksil 6y ago
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