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Social Media Manipulation Via Bots

Internet bots are thought to have major influences in the information age. Bots are applications that run automated scripts on the Internet. Bots can quickly carry out tasks that would be too simple and repetitive for a human user and have seen increased use in recent years in manipulating social media narratives and trying to manipulate social media users for the political gains. It is difficult to regulate something so difficult to define and wide ranging, with Internet bots being used in all avenues of the internet for various tasks, the problem with blanket regulations against something like that is complex and runs the risk of oppressing free speech. How do you think that Internet Bots should be used ?

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