Thanks @russ1mitchell for covering our recent paper describing the existence of corporate computational social media accounts (#fanbots) and their role in support of the Tesla narrative. Here’s a link to the article in @latimes latimes.com/business/story… and a short summary. 🧵 1/n Looking at tweets from Tesla IPO to 2020, we found a set of accounts that did not exhibit human-like behavior. Using Botometer botometer.osome.iu.edu, an IS tool from Fil Menczer at UoIllinois, we identified these accounts as programmed users generating pro-Tesla content. 2/n