<story><title>Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gentleman11</author><text>Headline is strange. The article itself says something similar but not the same:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19.“&lt;p&gt;Edit: this was more interesting:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; not only were bots gaining traction and accumulating followers, but they accounted for 82% of the top 50 and 62% of the top 1,000 influential retweeters</text></comment>
<story><title>Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kgin</author><text>Again, it follows the same pattern of observing American culture, looking for the pre-existing conflicts and just pouring gasoline into whatever side needs it to catch fire.</text></comment>