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   Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots   
      
      
   Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of   
   mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’   
      
   The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being   
   reshaped by an army of automated Twitter bots, with a new analysis   
   finding that a quarter of all tweets about climate on an average day   
   are produced by bots, the Guardian can reveal.   
      
   The stunning levels of Twitter bot activity on topics related to   
   global heating and the climate crisis is distorting the online   
   discourse to include far more climate science denialism than it would   
   otherwise.   
      
   An analysis of millions of tweets from around the period when Donald   
   Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement   
   found that bots tended to applaud the president for his actions and   
   spread misinformation about the science.   
      
   The study of Twitter bots and climate was undertaken by Brown   
   University and has yet to be published. Bots are a type of software   
   that can be directed to autonomously tweet, retweet, like or direct   
   message on Twitter, under the guise of a human-fronted account.   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweet   
   -twitter-bots-analysis?CMP=share_btn_tw   
      
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