Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident
www.newscientist.com
Large proportions of users posting on Twitter – now X – about the Chinese balloon that drifted over the US and Canada in 2023 were bots attempting to shape the debate
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Original Title: Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident. Around 35 per cent of users geotagged as located in the US exhibited bot-like behaviour, while 65 per cent were believed to be human. In China, the proportions were reversed: 64 per cent were bots and 36 per cent were humans.