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Bots on X worse than ever according to analysis of 1m tweets during first Republican primary debate
Bot activity on the platform formerly known as Twitter is worse than ever, according to researchers, despite X’s new owner, Elon Musk, claiming a crackdown on bots as one of his key reasons for buying the company.
“It is clear that X is not doing enough to moderate content and has no clear strategy for dealing with political disinformation,” associate professor Dr Timothy Graham tells Guardian Australia.
A researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, Graham has tracked misinformation and bot activity on social media for several years including until Musk took over Twitter in October last year.
Graham and the PhD candidate Kate FitzGerald recently analysed 1m tweets surrounding the first Republican primary debate, along with Tucker Carlson’s interview with the former US president Donald Trump streamed on X at the same time.
- Nods approvingly. Almost there. We can do this.monospaced
- Anyone who believed Musk had a problem with bots on the platform is a gullible idiot.i_monk
- so he is a idiot...neverscared
- He was trying to back out of the purchase, now he's happy to see RWNJ bots proliferate.i_monk
- I couldn’t be happier. The more bits and upset Xers the better. Almost done now.monospaced
- So many women who wear very little clothes seem to really like my postings of 1970's comics and generative art on X. It's wildPhanLo