SA Twitter infiltrated by Russian propaganda bots - research
For example, the researcher saw a message thatpartheidRussian People were with South Africans during difficult timesthey assisted us when the rest were supporting our oppressors.countries that abstained from the 2nd March 2022 UN vote to decry the Russian invasion of Ukraine had the highest relative frequency of bots.
However, bots were responsible for a “disproportionate” amount of retweets, which means that while human users are making the majority of the content it is spread mostly by bots.amplifiers of Russian propaganda through retweeting,” it adds.getting rid of the bots on the social media platform, there is a chance that issues around bots spreading propaganda could be diminished in the near future.
Before his purchase of the company, Twitter made it plain that it did not have a major “bot problem,” which Musk was keen to debate against.Let him prove to the public that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users!However, in the weeks since Twitter came under his leadership Musk has been mum on any methods the company is actually using to address bots. Despite this, he published a Twitter poll and most respondents claimed that they have been noticing fewer bots on the site .
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