"The network, tracked for NBC News by both the social media analytics company Alethea and researchers at Clemson University, consists of more than 400 identified bot accounts"
"The researchers believe X is likely rife with inauthentic accounts, though it’s impossible to tell the scope. Last year, researchers found a different network of AI-driven pro-Trump accounts on X. But there is no way to grasp the scale of their presence on the network. X disbanded much of its trust and safety team when billionaire Elon Musk bought the site in 2022 and has since made it significantly harder for researchers to access data."
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"The researchers believe X is likely rife with inauthentic accounts, though it’s impossible to tell the scope. Last year, researchers found a different network of AI-driven pro-Trump accounts on X. But there is no way to grasp the scale of their presence on the network. X disbanded much of its trust and safety team when billionaire Elon Musk bought the site in 2022 and has since made it significantly harder for researchers to access data."
A MAGA bot network on X is divided over the Trump-Epstein backlash
Researchers have found hundreds of fake X accounts that support the Trump administration.
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