#BotSpot thread: self-made bots in Italy (h/t @DavidPuente for the initial spot). Meet the selfbots. medium.com/dfrlab/electio…
This week, this batch of accounts was posting about Lega leader Matteo Salvini in eerie unison. Just over 150 of them.
This isn't a one-off. They repeatedly post the same Salvini content at the same time.
That's bot behaviour, but they're not just bots. On other subjects, some share personal content, even selfies.
This one even has the "Novorossiya" flag, though it's only ever mentioned the name twice.
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