Get the latest tech news
Bots backing Linda Reynolds and Gina Rinehart likely a foreign state actor sowing division, expert says
Dozens of X accounts have lamented ‘heartless attacks’ on Liberal senator while others praised Rinehart’s ‘patronage of Aussie sporting codes’
A foreign state actor is likely responsible for a swarm of pro-Linda Reynolds and pro-Gina Rinehart bots on the social media site X as they appear intended to sow discord about the health of liberal democracy, an academic expert has said. The same account, whose first publicly available tweet was published on 13 August, has complained about air pollution in Canada and the threat of rising sea levels as a result of climate change. That account, with two followers and no publicly available tweets before 14 August, also complained about climate change and said that “as a Kiwi it’s disheartening to see so many friends and family leaving NZ in search of better opportunities”.
Or read this on r/technology
