Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be Bots
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
Encountering a bot account while scrolling through Twitter is more likely to occur in the era of COVID-19. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots. To analyze bot activity around the pandemic, CMU researchers since […]