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Bots Are Likely Responsible For Nearly Half Of COVID-19 Tweets, Say Researchers

Bots Are Likely Responsible For Nearly Half Of COVID-19 Tweets, Say Researchers

Bots Are Likely Responsible For Nearly Half Of COVID-19 Tweets, Say Researchers
May 24, 2020 47 secs

During the 2016 presidential election, computer operations linked to the Kremlin were found to be responsible for campaign tweets and other messages that further divided the American electorate by amplifying controversy.

With coronavirus, “We do know that it looks like it’s a propaganda machine, and it definitely matches the Russian and Chinese playbooks, but it would take a tremendous amount of resources to substantiate that,” lead researcher Kathleen Carley, a computer science professor and head of the university’s Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity, said in a Carnegie Mellon report last week about the research.

It’s what many misinformation campaigns aim to do,” Carley said.

Carley said in a video lecture last month that hate speech is growing in the social media debate about COVID-19, and it’s “forming hate communities.”.

“When we see a whole bunch of tweets at the same time or back to back, it’s like they’re timed,” Carley said.

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