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Interview with Renée DiResta: Online Ecosystems, Disinformation, & Censorship Debates

Decoding the Gurus

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The Role of Automated Bots in Amplifying Messages

Elon Musk: I don't have any skepticism about automated bot networks and the role in amplifying messages. But to what extent you think that's a very core component or alternatively, to what extent those concerns are exaggerated? How worried should average people be that they're engaging with bot accounts and are they easy to detect or are they not very advanced and it looks exactly like a normal person? "The prevalence of them is probably not small," he says.

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