social media bot
Fake online persona
A social media bot is an automated account that posts, likes, follows, or replies without direct human control.
Bots range from harmless scheduling tools to coordinated networks spreading propaganda or artificially inflating engagement: Half the replies were from bots.
Bot accounts often show telltale patterns—generic profile photos, repetitive phrasing, inhuman posting frequency.
- trollDeliberate online antagonist
- fake accountFabricated user profile
- burner accountDisposable online identity
- automatedOperating without human control
- click farmOperation manufacturing fake interactions
bot army · spam · follower · algorithm · viral · engagement · tweets · retweet · likes · disinformation · astroturfing · propaganda · influence · sockpuppet · catfish · manipulation · hashtag · swarm
- botsbot, bots, chatbot, chatbots, spam bot
- Digital EntitiesAI, bot, chatbot, virtual assistant, AI assistant
- web scrapingweb scraping, scraping, scraper, scrapers, spider
social media botgrassroots movement
Citizen-led collective action campaign
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