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1/ To #TheResistance,

Russian deployed bots have proven to be one of the most challenging and menacing problems across the whole of social media.

They are also the effective tool in Russia's counter-democratic aresenal.

I consider them enemy number one to #TheResistance.
2/ And while many of us have become rather adept at identifying them during real-time interactions, the truth is there is no way to identify them with certainty on the fly.

Bots are software applications that run simple, repetitive scripts which each carry out a specific task.
Such tasks include posting and retweeting fake news stories to as many accounts as possible to ensure the highest level of saturation.

More complicated programs can assume self-created personas who, through the use of databases & keyword searches find individuals to then troll.
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