Joe Biden, bots and British soccer—What's behind mystery Twitter campaign?

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Joe Biden, bots and British soccer—What's behind mystery Twitter campaign?
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Dozens of repetitive tweets praising Biden led some to think the Dems were spreading propaganda. Newsweek Fact Check investigated the mysterious copypasta case.

, fleshing out the template that was eventually used on the Johnson and Biden posts.

It appears that, in the case of the most recent tweets, simply the subject and job title have changed. found that a number of accounts that sent the message were rated as far more likely to be a bot than not . "We call these cyborgs—normal human activity is mixed with occasional inauthentic activity," he added.

"Much of this can be automated. I fill out a form with the request and pay you online to do this; you run a script that uses the Twitter API to search for tweets by Biden and post replies via these cyborg accounts, with theThis helps cement our confidence that the Democratic Party wasn't behind the tweets. There is no evidence to link it to them, or any other U.S.

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