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Twitter bots climate disinformation

Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation. Researchers determined that nearly 9.5% of the users in their sample were likely bots. But those bots accounted for 25% of the total tweets about climate change on most days from r/science

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/twitter-bots-are-a-major-source-of-climate-disinformation/

paper published last week in the journal Climate Policy is part of an expanding body of research about the role of bots in online climate discourse.

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