After Florida School Shooting, Russian 'Bot' Army Pounced
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/technology/russian-bots-school-shooting.html
Those automated Twitter accounts have been closely tracked by
researchers. Last year, the Alliance for Securing Democracy,
in conjunction with the German Marshall Fund, a public policy
research group in Washington, created a website that tracks
hundreds of Twitter accounts of human users and suspected bots
that they have linked to a Russian influence campaign. The
researchers zeroed in on Twitter accounts posting information
that was in step with material coming from well-known Russian
propaganda outlets. To spot an automated bot, they looked for
certain signs, like an extremely high volume of posts or
content that conspicuously matched hundreds of other accounts.
The researchers said they had watched as the bots began
posting about the Parkland shooting shortly after it happened.
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Twitter is complicit in this treason by permitting these automated
accounts to continue operating. Shut down those accounts, or shut down
Twitter.
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