The ‘Russian bots’ that weren’t: Twitter backtracks on troll claims, media ignores updated info

RT | February 26, 2019 Twitter quietly revised its public database of ‘Russian bot’ accounts earlier this month, removing 228 accounts it previously said were “connected to Russia”— but the admission has gone almost completely unnoticed by the media. Bloomberg reported on the “burst of activity” from the bot accounts and claimed that Russia’s “social-media […]