bots
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Twitter Finally Embraces Bots
After spending the past few years trying to usher out the many, many bots populating its platform, Twitter is finally trying to give some of them a chance. On Thursday, the company announced it would begin testing out labels for some automated accounts — better known as Twitter bots — to let users suss out…
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Twitter Is Trying to Crack Down on 5G Conspiracy Theories
Twitter shows no signs of letting up on fact-checking false tweets. The social media platform is now labelling tweets that falsely tie the rollout of 5G to the spread of covid-19 with a fact-checking link, Business Insider spotted. This comes just days after Twitter cracked down on President Trump with a voter-fraud fact check and hid…
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A Quarter Of All Climate Tweets Come From Bots, And They’re More Likely To Peddle Denial
The bots are taking over, man. Researchers have found that bots are largely fuelling climate denial propaganda on Twitter.
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Social Media Companies Aren’t Even Close To Fixing Their Bot Problem, Report Finds
Researchers with the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence released a report this week showing that—shocker!—it remains as easy as ever to buy followers and engagement on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.