RPT-Ahead of Malaysian polls, bots flood Twitter with pro-government messages [Reuters]
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RPT-Ahead of Malaysian polls, bots flood Twitter with pro-government messages | Reuters Reuters Staff 5 Min Read (Repeats Friday item, no change to text) By A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 (Reuters) - Just weeks before Malaysia goes to the polls, automated accounts known as bots are flooding Twitter with tens of thousands of pro-government and anti-opposition messages, according to a review of the tweets by Reuters and a U.S. digital media research institute. Asked about the matter, San Francisco-based Twitter Inc said it was focused on identifying and suspending accounts that violate its spam policies. “We continue to fight hard to tackle any malicious automation on our platform as well as spam accounts,” it said, without giving specific details. A source close to the matter said the company had suspended 500 accounts involved in the messages on the Malaysian election since they involved spam or malicious automation. Twitter bots, accounts which can post, like or resend twee
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