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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

Bots on X worse than ever according to analysis of 1m tweets during first Republican primary debate

An orange network of nodes interconnected on a grey background
A co-retweet network, where the more orange the node the more recently the Twitter/X account was created, visualised by researchers at QUT. Photograph: Timothy Graham & Katherine M. FitzGerald, QUT

Bot activity on the platform formerly known as Twitter is worse than ever, according to researchers, despite X’s new owner, Elon Musk, claiming a crackdown on bots as one of his key reasons for buying the company.

“It is clear that X is not doing enough to moderate content and has no clear strategy for dealing with political disinformation,” associate professor Dr Timothy Graham tells Guardian Australia.

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