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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by aresant on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:09PM (#13502675)
Could NYT quantify - through experimentation - the value of a bot army as the "story"?

For instance a Tweet with 100 retweets is substantially more likely to generate additional retweets / be shown more by Twitter's algorithm / etc vs. a tweet with 10 retweets. And scale that up!

Easy to build an experiment and quantify even on a small level for NYT.

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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by stephengillie on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:40PM (#13503390)
They could have tweeted, paid for a bot army to retweet, then reported on that.
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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by scholia on Friday January 27, 2017 @08:45PM (#13504317)
And then gotten criticized for being unethical....
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