Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots

NPR ^ | May 20, 2020 | Bobby Allyn

[conservative98]

Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said Wednesday.

Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets discussing the virus since January and found that about 45% were sent by accounts that behave more like computerized robots than humans.

[conservative98]

Half of Twitter accounts are bots.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

RUSSIAN bots.

They forgot the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA part.

[montag813]

study into bot-generated coronavirus activity on Twitter that has yet to be published.

But of course NPR reports it as fact, sight unseen.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

No surprise here. The Leftist Democrats found it to be a winning formula to spread covid hysteria.

Without covid hysteria Trump would be our USA President.

[Who is John Galt?]

Half of Twitter accounts are bots.

No wonder so much "fake news" originates there! And it fits very nicely with their censorship policies: push the phony narrative, and suppress the real facts...

;>)

[Track9]

And the rest are payed government stooge ‘influencers’.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Just like so many “Best of 2022” product reviews.

“This is the best product ever. Everybody wants it. It has cool features in big demand. You will like this product.”

[SmokingJoe]

Not published yet doesn't mean they are not facts.

[semimojo]

But of course NPR reports it as fact, sight unseen.

They reported what the CMU researchers found.

I don't want to fund NPR to do their own research.

[ETCM]

Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots

And the other half are retweeting the bot tweets.

[SmokingJoe]

Them fake covid Twitter accounts are like Biden's “81 million votes”.

[nascarnation]

Here’s the source.
(note that it’s nearly two years old)
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2020/may/twitter-bot-campaign.html

[humblegunner]

messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots

So... Qtards then?

[nesnah]

So... Qtards then?

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Better than an H-Tard. 😉

[FreedomPoster]

Yet a high quality account that was posting quality links to scientific papers, @Covid19Crusher IIRC, got banned.

[wgmalabama]

So they are FedGov employees. Got it. Big surprise. Not as big as the vax lovers are going to get. Hit me again. 7th vax might work.

[dforest]

We have Ukraine bots on here. They usually post Daily Mail hogwash 24/7. Yo can tell because they care about Ukraine more than our own country.

[bakeneko]

Most of the ‘voices’ at NPR are bots, so Twitter better start sifting out those real people fast-like.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Twitter isn’t dealing with that disinformation, are they?