Researchers have found hundreds of fake X accounts that support the Trump administration.
A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, researchers say.
But with the MAGA movement split over the administration’s handling of files involving deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the accounts’ messaging has broken, offering contradictory statements on the issue and revealing the AI-fueled nature of the accounts.
The network, tracked for NBC News by both the social media analytics company Alethea and researchers at Clemson University, consists of more than 400 identified bot accounts, though the number could be far larger, the researchers say. Its accounts offer consistent praise for key Trump figures, particularly support for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
All the more reason to boycott X.
There’s plenty of other problems with bot accounts on different platforms, but X doesn’t have a Trust & Safety team any more so you can’t even get these accounts to be taken down.
But no, companies, public services and politicians are all still on X. Ugh
Counter suggestion, we flood x with our own bot not pushing the side we want. You abandon the masses and they’re at the whim of the oligarchs.
Bot fight? What is this, 1990s IRC?
brb, netsplit
Isn’t it against the tos of most of these AI companies to use their bots to deceive people into thinking they are real humans? Really there should be laws about this because currently the system is not working.
You say like they’d respect the law any more.
Publicly funded propaganda campaigns in the USA? Who would have thought.
People should be equally upset about where the funding is coming from… Its coming from your taxes.
the real constituency
