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Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study
New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots due to a vulnerability in Twitter’s Trends algorithm.
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| Jun 2, 2021 | Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study by FridayoLeary | 485 | 181 |
