How pro-Trump bots are sowing division in the Republican Party: Report
Thousands of automated Twitter accounts appear to be praising Donald Trump and ridiculing his political rivals, according to a social analysis firm. Coordinated groups of inauthentic accounts have been attempting to influence online conversations around the 2024 elections for the better part of a year, according to a recent investigation conducted by Cyabra, a social analysis firm. According to the Israel-based firm, someone created thousands of automated Twitter accounts that appear to be praising former President Donald Trump and criticizing his political rivals on both sides of the aisle. "What I found was so interesting about this bot farm [was] that it understood the nuances of the division within the Re public an Party and it was exploiting that online," Jules Gross, a solutions engineer at Cyabra, told ABC News. Gross said she reviewed hundreds of posts and found that these automated accounts -- or bots -- were going after Trump's potential 2024 rivals for the pre...