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Swarms of AI bots are threatening democracy

  • Filippo Menczer--Salon
  • published date: 2026-02-15 11:00:56 UTC

The level of coordination among inauthentic online agents is unprecedented.

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platforms data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts postin… [+7408 chars]