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Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X

Partisan bot-like accounts have amassed over 4 billion views for content on X, with some continuing to push divisive content after the UK General Election

However some have also pivoted to respond specifically to emerging global events, such as anti-migrant protests in Ireland, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, and Joe Biden stepping down from the US presidential election race. The "major new study" in question was a literature review which claims that "the officially presented impact of anthropogenic CO2 increase on Earth’s climate is merely a hypothesis rather than a substantiated fact," has not used any new data and has received only one citation. Posts promoted the hashtag #IrelandbelongstotheIrish, encouraged people to join the protests, referenced conspiratorial tropes of "population replacement", or claimed that there was a government plot to import "thousands of criminals" and create chaos to justify greater social repression.

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