Someone, specifically, is running these bot farms to amplify specific messages, for specific people, at specific times and they have a purpose in mind for doing that. “The reason we want to spend a lot of time on this is because people need to understand that these bot farms do not just create themselves and they don’t run themselves. In the video below, ThinkingSlow explained the investigation they’ve been conducting, at the global level, relating to these Twitter bots and what impact it has: The image below gives an example of each.Ĭovert on the left, Overt on the right Welcome to the world of Twitter bots (pdf), ThinkingSlow, August 2022 Overt – largely blank profile (likes only). Welcome to the world of Twitter bots (pdf), ThinkingSlow, August 2022Ĭovert– covered in symbols appealing to a group and another. We are not commenting on who is operating the bot farm … Our assumption is that both Twitter and the relevant cyber security authorities are aware of these activities and have chosen not to prevent them. The beneficiary can be aware or unaware of the role of bots. Possibilities include, but are not limited to:Īlgorithms choose based on their own criteria. There can be several possible explanations, but we are NOT assigning any single explanation. They have prepared a downloadable document showing an overview of how these bots work:Īround about 30,000 bots amplify the comments on the relevant individuals that are “on message” and their traffic by a factor of around 100x or more. This amplification serves a malevolent purpose of manipulating the general public into believing that certain policies are significantly more popular than they are in reality. The traffic is created by automated and semi-automated accounts and used to amplify selected individuals and political messages.
ThinkingSlow has been monitoring Twitter traffic to expose the workings of a major bot operation which aims to amplify The Great Reset policy agenda by increasing “followers,” “likes” and “retweets” of selected accounts.Īutomated, or so-called bot, traffic is a significant problem on Twitter’s social media platform, ThinkingSlow stated in a press release on Friday.
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