Twitter is crawling with bots and lacks incentive to expel them

Twitter is scrambling to explain how bots controlled by Russian meddlers may have been used to impact the 2016 president election in the USA

Selina Wang
Published13 Oct 2017, 04:36 PM IST
Experts say Twitter lags far behind Google and Facebook in handling suspicious accounts and stopping bad content at its source. Image: Reuters
Experts say Twitter lags far behind Google and Facebook in handling suspicious accounts and stopping bad content at its source. Image: Reuters(Reuters)

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