Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Fox fellow Clint Watts Quoted in Wired on Russian Disinformation

Fox fellow Clint Watts Quoted in Wired on Russian Disinformation

Fox fellow Clint Watts Quoted in Wired on Russian Disinformation


Wired

As Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a former FBI special agent, recently put it during a congressional hearing on terrorism and social media, “The negative effects of social bots far outweigh any benefits. The anonymous replication of accounts that routinely broadcast high volumes of misinformation can pose a serious risk to public safety and, when employed by authoritarians, a direct threat to democracy.”

Twitter has stopped short of banning bots entirely, but it will drastically limit the ways in which they can interact with each other. In a blog post, the company detailed a number of new limitations for third-party developers designed to stop users from posting or liking simultaneously from multiple accounts, or to rally multiple accounts behind a single hashtag all at once.

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