Propaganda bots dominate social networks in some countries

It wont shock you to hear that governments and shady political groups will use social network bots in a bit to control the flow of information. But just how prevalent are they? Depending on where you live, they might just dictate the social media landscape. Oxford University researchers have published a study showing that computational propaganda (bots and other coordinated campaigns) is practically par for the course in some countries. In Russia, for instance, 45 percent of Tw……
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