Roughly half the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found.

[Efilroft Sul]

Have bot, will tweet: Interesting news coming out of Carnegie Mellon University.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nearly-half-of-reopen-america-twitter-accounts-are-bots-report-2020-5

[leftieNanner]

1. Putin wants to weaken America

in every way he can.

[Iliyah]

5. So does republicans . .

[iluvtennis]

8. + 1. nt

[Buzz cook]

2. So if you ban half randomly

The odds are good you'll get 1/2 the bots. Repeat till all the bots are gone.

[onecaliberal]

12. I've blocked a ton of them.

[The Magistrate]

3. If Monitors Can Find This Out, So Can The Proprietors, Sir

They could shut this down in a twinkling if they chose, and if they do not, that is the result of a deliberate decision to host this sort of destructive rot.

[Efilroft Sul]

6. You know it. Bots are good for business, but not for the public interest. It's a deliberate choice.

[Freethinker65]

4. Seems about right.

Even in GOP strongholds, people are staying close to their homes or at least their communities.

[warmfeet]

7. bots cause death.

We are allowing computer bots to kill us. Some fun!

[bucolic_frolic]

9. We are being fed bullshit

There were many titles on YouTube today and tonight that chronicled Election Night 2016 and Trump's election. This cannot be a random event, somebody's pushing it big time.

[C Moon]

10. Here we go again. Hold on everyone! Putin's busy behind the scenes.

[dlk]

11. Putin's goal is chaos

Hasn’t he succeeded with his buddy Trump!

[SergeStorms]

13. I read that the original accounts...

used to start the reopen America protests were owned by the DeVos family. They're just as active in dirty right-wing politics as the Koch family.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/conservative-group-linked-to-devos-family-organizes-protest-of-coronavirus-restrictions-in-michigan/

[Efilroft Sul]

15. I'll say this about them: They know how to use "freedom" as a fig leaf for their greedy motivations.

[lostnfound]

14. Half the accounts, what percent of the tweets?

Bots are prolific.

[Efilroft Sul]

16. That's a great question. I'll have to ask my CMU friends.