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August 3 Bot Activity on X Related to Rally in Kirkland Lake
Aengus Bridgman, David Hobson, Chris Ross, Blake Lee-Whiting, Sara Parker, Chloe Kemeni, Julian Lam, Fenwick McKelvey, Elizabeth Dubois, Scott DeJong, Robert Marinov, Colleen McCool, Hélène Huang, Jeremy Clark, Junyan Zhu
Published in Canadian Digital Media Research Network
Abstract
Final debrief concluding that the Kirkland Lake bot campaign was likely caused by a single entity or actor using newly created bot accounts with AI-generated content.
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