20% of All Election Related Tweets Came From Non-Humans

With the elections done, let's take a look at one of the most prolific source of political tweets during the campaign period -- bots. Yes, you may well have been retweeting or replying to bots. This isn't so terribly novel, but notably, they can seem as passionate as you are, and they have been given an AI upgrade. A study published by researchers at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently examined just how influential these bots were (and are). And according to the authors, Alessandro Bessi and Emilio Ferrara, their presence is profound.