Twitter Bots Spreading "Genuinely Fake News"

As if we had enough to worry about with #FakeNews. Now there is "genuinely fake news"!

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Threat intelligence firm Record Future, which published the study this week, has developed tools for detecting and analyzing operations by nation-states, and has been tracking the new phenomenon.

Coining the term “fishwrap,” the group says the disinformation network could be acting independently — or as part of a foreign government.

“These guys are running a professional operation,” Truvé said. “They keep track of their results, see how many clicks they can get and of course there’s some demographics of the people who are following this and reading it,” he added.

“This could be in preparation for a future operation where once you’ve established followers to these accounts, you could start spreading genuinely fake news,” he warned.

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