Twitter Bots Post Two-Thirds of Links to Popular Sites on the Platform

Bots have become a great scourge of the internet. Recently, they’ve flooded government comment systems with fake activism, distorted the national discourse on guns, and launched malicious attacks against the Justice Department. And a new study suggests they’re behind the majority of links shared on Twitter, too. A Pew Research report released Monday finds that …

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