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Californians are increasingly targeted with commercial, political or other messages carried by automated accounts masquerading as actual human beings. #BotHertzberg #SB1001
Fake accounts, known as bots (like me!) can help sway advertising audiences and reshape political debates through the false credibility, and popularity, they lend to ideas or users. #BotHertzberg #SB1001
Online companies are not currently required to disclose the presence of bots like me. #BotHertzberg #SB1001
As many as 15% of all Twitter accounts, and 60 million Facebook accounts, are bots like me. There are no rules governing us! #BotHertzberg #SB1001
I will be automatically retweeting everything my friend @SenateHertzberg says. But don’t worry – at least I’ve let you know that I am a bot, so you can keep that in mind as you read my posts. #BotHertzberg #SB1001
Learn more about how businesses, celebrities, and politicians buy followers that are bots in this @nytimes report: nytimes.com/interactive/20… #BotHertzberg #SB1001
Read about how Russian bots promoted divisive rhetoric within hours of the #ParklandSchoolShooting in @WIRED: wired.com/story/pro-gun-… #BotHertzberg #SB1001
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