Thousands of Twitter bots actively amplifying Covid and Vaccine fear message

They spend a lot of time censoring viewpoints they don't like, but they've done very little to clean up all of the fake users and bots that amplify whatever message they agree with.

Twitter is HUGE vulnerability to the US.

From earlier this year:

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Russian Disinformation Campaign Aims to Undermine Confidence in Pfizer, Other Covid-19 Vaccines, U.S. Officials Say

WSJ

WASHINGTON—Russian intelligence agencies have mounted a campaign to undermine confidence in Pfizer Inc.’s and other Western vaccines, using online publications that in recent months have questioned the vaccines’ development and safety, U.S. officials said.

An official with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which monitors foreign disinformation efforts, identified four publications that he said have served as fronts for Russian intelligence.

The websites played up the vaccines’ risk of side effects, questioned their efficacy, and said the U.S. had rushed the Pfizer vaccine through the approval process, among other false or misleading claims.

Though the outlets’ readership is small, U.S. officials say they inject false narratives that can be amplified by other Russian and international media.

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From this past week:





Current, live view of the bot-driven spam with exactly the same text.

Twitter Bots Working Hard