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X says ‘alert’ to manipulation efforts after pro-Russia bots report

X said it has a robust policy in place to prevent platform spam and manipulation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - X was “alert” to any platform manipulation attempts, the Elon Musk-owned site told AFP on Oct 11, following a report that hundreds of apparent pro-Russian bot accounts were amplifying US election misinformation. ASP called them “sleeper agents” as some of the accounts had escaped detection and moderation on the site – previously known as Twitter – for as long as 15 years and retweeted content within seconds of its posting, indicating bot activity. But apparent bot activity remains entrenched on the platform, according to several disinformation researchers, including a report in 2023 from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology that analysed about one million posts.

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