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‘twitter has a serious problem’..

16/4/2017 By editor Leave a Comment

(excerpt..)

Bots can undermine democracy.

On March 30 during the first Senate intelligence committee hearing on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election – London-based cybersecurity expert Thomas Rid described how several groups became ‘unwitting agents’ of Russian efforts to influence the American presidential election.

One was WikiLeaks – which has been accused by the US government of helping the Russian government when it published thousands of emails related to the Clinton campaign.

Journalists who ‘aggressively covered the political leaks while neglecting or ignoring their provenance’ were another group.

And so was Twitter Rid said – because of the ‘fully automated bots as well as semi-automated spam and trolling accounts [that] make up a sizeable part of Twitter’s active user base’.

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Source: Twitter Has a Serious Problem—And It’s Actually a Bigger Deal Than People Realize | Mother Jones

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