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  1. 30%-49% of people tweeting about the protests might be bots at any given time, according to research by Kathleen Carley, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Over the last five days of May, Carley said, she saw 625,375 tweets and 413,900 users that qualified as suspected inauthentic activity. “About 30% of those tweets are guaranteed to be bots,” Carley told Digital Trends. “There’s another bunch that appear to be bot-like.” Carley also noted that the bots seemed to be spreading different narratives than the humans were — for instance, talking about and pretending to be part of the Antifa movement. “We’re seeing the bots bring up the Hong Kong protests where humans won’t,” she told Digital Trends. “And more of the bots will mention things related to Trump or to different politicians than humans will.”
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