Sci Show: Researchers created bot accounts that self-identified as people who favored the Democratic or Republican party. They then randomly assigned 842 Twitter users to be followed by one of our accounts. Users were roughly three times more likely to follow-back bots whose partisanship matched their own.

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Researchers created bot accounts that self-identified as people who favored the Democratic or Republican party. They then randomly assigned 842 Twitter users to be followed by one of our accounts. Users were roughly three times more likely to follow-back bots whose partisanship matched their own.

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