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HALF of all Twitter posts demanding US reopen economy and spreading COVID-19 conspiracy theories are bots, researchers say
2020-05-25
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists conducted social media study

  • They examined 200 million coronavirus-related tweets since January

  • Researchers looked at tweets promoting conspiracies, protesting lockdown

  • Between 45 and 60 per cent of those tweets were from bots, study found
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  This could be said of Twitter traffic in general.

Hmm, I wonder what the pro-lockdown percentage was?

And what about the "China is doing a great job, and it's racist to say 'Chinavirus'" tweets?.

Posted by: charger   2020-05-25 15:36  

#4  So are these bots supposed to be Russian or Chinese? Trump to speed up the reopening for his reelection, or the Deep State to make him look bad?
Posted by: Bobby   2020-05-25 11:57  

#3  ^ so's mine Steve and it's not even plugged in.
Posted by: AlanC   2020-05-25 07:27  

#2  My Bullshit Detector is twinging and I haven't even read the article.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-05-25 02:27  

#1  The other 50% are genuine?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-25 02:17  

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