Real, or not? USC study finds many political tweets come from fake accounts

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 17:31 in Mathematics & Economics

They are used to help businesses better interact with customers. They have accidentally released FBI documents to the public. And a new study shows that they have some pretty strong political opinions. They are bots — those fake accounts that flood Twitter with automatically generated content, and they made up nearly one-fifth of the political […]

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