Can Robots Influence Voting Behaviour and Manipulate an Election?

A debate that is still hot in the discussion as the United States Presidential election 2020 date draws near. There are many reasons to deploy robots in an election, trade pundits believe that robots are imperative to control the narrative during political debates and skew its discourse. However, it is still not clear to what extent the automated AI-driven bots can manipulate social media activity and what kind of influence they have on public opinion and election outcomes. Bots can exist in all kinds of social media. They can, for example, be active in various forms of discussion forums or commentary fields, Twitter for instance.