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Carnegie Mellon University: Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing 'Reopening America' May Be Bots
May 30, 2020
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 30 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news on May 27:

Encountering a bot account while scrolling through Twitter is more likely to occur in the era of COVID-19. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.

To analyze bot activity around the pandemic, CMU researchers since Jan . . .

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