Twitterbots spreading fake news on the internet
Recent reports suggest social media bots are widely spreading fake news on the Internet.
A Twitterbot is a bot program used to create accounts and automated tweets that requires little or no human intervention. This typically means that not all accounts have to be created by humans. Twitterbots can be used for entertainment, marketing, spamming, manipulating Twitter’s trending topics list and public opinion, trolling, fake followers, malware…
Link: Weekly Threat Report 27th January 2017
Source: NCSC Reports
