Experts say that a network of Twitter bot accounts numbering in the thousands has been praising former President Donald Trump as he campaigns for 2024, as well as attacking former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley.
PUBLISHED 1:24 PM EST Mar. 06, 2023Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.Experts say that a network of Twitter bot accounts numbering in the thousands has been praising former President Donald Trump as he campaigns for 2024
The sprawling bot network was uncovered by researchers at Cyabra, an Israeli tech firm that shared its findings with The Associated Press. While the identity of those behind the network of fake accounts is unknown, Cyabra’s analysts determined that it was likely created within the U.S.To identify a bot, researchers will look for patterns in an account’s profile, its follower list and the content it posts.
One way of gauging the impact of bots is to measure the percentage of posts about any given topic generated by accounts that appear to be fake. The percentage for typical online debates is often in the low single digits. When Cyabra researchers examined negative posts about specific Trump critics, however, they found far higher levels of inauthenticity. Nearly three-fourths of the negative posts about Haley, for example, were traced back to fake accounts.
The triple network was discovered after Gross analyzed Tweets about different national political figures and noticed that many of the accounts posting the content were created on the same day. Most of the accounts remain active, though they have relatively modest numbers of followers.
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