Bots on Bots on Bots: How Machine Learning Twitter Bots Are Posing As Trump Supporters (Poorly). Proof Bots have overrun Twitter…

It’s no secret that bots are taking over twitter. Recent estimates put this number up to 48 million bots.

The smart people over at sadbottrue.com have been documenting this with statistical analysis of twitter accounts that display bot behavior. Determining that an account is 100% bot is difficult to do.

What happens when a machine learning algorithm adds Trump logos to determine which logos work best (A/B testing)? Eventually, bots start adding logos to images that already have logos…

This is the first evidence I’ve seen confirming bots actively A/B testing and generating accounts.

The issue of bots has implications far beyond politics, including ad-revenue fraud and sadbottrue.com is doing a fantastic job of bring it to light.

Checkout their articles, Milestone of Fakes, and Make America Bot Again.