For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”

For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”

  • Hypx@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    So one thing people misunderstand about “bots” is that we assume they’re entirely artificial. That is not true. A lot of them are ran by real people and write tweets written by real people. Often times, the real bots are the ones that follow or support the main account, and are there to create an illusion of widespread support.