The
New York Times surveys the various politically-motivated bots clogging up Twitter’s pipes.
“On social media, our political battles are increasingly
automated,” it writes. “People who head to Twitter to discuss their ideals are, often unwittingly, conversing with legions of bots: accounts pre-programmed to spew the same campaign
slogans, insults or conspiracy theories hundreds or thousands of times a day.”
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