Divisions in society were made worse by hoards of automated software ‘bots’ in the days preceding the Catalan independence referendum last year, according to Italian and US researchers who analysed four million contemporary tweets from one million twitter users. At times, over 23% of posts were by bots, and Twitter ‘replies’ by bots peaked at 38.8% ...
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