Your biggest influencer on Twitter may be a machine called a “Twitterbot”. That’s right, there is a good chance the tweet for the link you received probably did not come from a human expert.  These bots can tweet and retweet information without any human contact. Stefan Wojcik, Computational Social Scientist at The Pew Research Center explained,” bots are in our homes, on our phones, and on social media platforms like Twitter.”  To identify what accounts are bots, they use a Botometer that scores the likelihood the account is a bot. His research found on average 66% of links to popular websites were actually posted by an automated account.  The research will tell you if it is a “bot or not”, but it can’t tell you if the info it sent is fake news or not. 

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