Trump’s Twitter debate lead was ‘swelled by bots’

More than four times as many tweets were made by automated accounts in favour of Donald Trump around the first US presidential debate as by those backing Hillary Clinton, a study found. …

The investigation was led by Prof Philip Howard, from the University of Oxford, and is part of a wider project exploring “computational propaganda”. CONT.

Shiroma Silva, BBC News

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