The article about covid tweets that describes this graph above states, “we discover an imbalance in liberal (8.7% of users) versus conservative bots (2.53% of users)“
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-022-00173-9
Posted on 03/07/2023 12:52:44 AM PST by Callahan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over 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.
Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that the Florida governor couldn’t beat Trump, but would be a great running mate.
As Republican voters size up their candidates for 2024, whoever created the bot network is seeking to put a thumb on the scale, using online manipulation techniques pioneered by the Kremlin to sway the digital platform conversation about candidates while exploiting Twitter’s algorithms to maximize their reach.
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.
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LOL always accuse your enemy of doing what you’re doing.
General, I’ve surveyed the field. It’s all bots !
“techniques pioneered by the Kremlin to sway the digital platform conversation”.
Absolutely insane to make this claim after what the Twitter Files have exposed.
Yeah, it’s just bots that don’t like that lovable skank Haley.
Comments about DeSantis sound exactly like what is being said on FR. Raise your hands, how many of you are bots?
They state this as ‘fact’?
How could they know this?
Aw Jeez, not this **** again.
I don’t believe a word of it.
“Perhaps hundreds of thousands of them” reveals the article to be speculation.
The US Official Media can’t believe anyone would support DJT, so it simply MUST be cheating, with the help of Russia, of course.
And while we’re at it, the constant harangue about “Russian interference” and the efforts to cast Russia as the bogeyman explains the knee-jerk reactions to anyone who doesn’t goose-step to the pro-Ukraine cheerleading.
Twitter banned me in 2019 cuz it said I’m a bot.
I’m still banned on Twitter cuz Twitter says I’m a bot.
So it must be true, right?
Sundance is exhibit A .
Wonder if the bots can get around a paper ballot and legal I.D.
It seems that Twitter has taken on a life of its own — a force of nature — and even Elon with his money and brains is powerless to rein it in. This is the IA we’ve been warned about.
It’s the Ass-ociated Press, not a credible news source.
I knew it. FR is a bot.
Total bullshit
No worries.
There’s still mail-in voting, early voting, any excuse absentee, ballot harvesting, ballot adjudication, and RCV-enabled voting machines.
Note to DeSantis: All still available to be used in Florida.
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