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The Day an Army of Bots Turned on Bot Researchers

UNDER SIEGE

A team tracking pro-Kremlin accounts after Charlottesville has found itself the target of an automated Twitter bombardment.

Joseph Cox
Joseph Cox
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Joseph Cox

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