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title: 1.76 Million Pro-Trump Tweets are Written by Bots
description: Bots are launching Twitter attacks on who they think should apparently be the next U.S. president.
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# [1.76 Million Pro-Trump Tweets are Written by Bots](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/1.76-million-pro-trump-tweets-are-written-by-bots)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Fri | Oct 21, 2016 | 7:00 AM Z

Bots are launching Twitter attacks on who they think should apparently be the next U.S. president.

[Sophos Explains:](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/10/19/twitter-bots-work-overtime-for-trump-and-clinton-in-us-presidential-race/)

> ‘Social bots’ are on the march on Twitter and a surprising number think Donald Trump should be the next US President.
> 
> A [new study by UK and US academics](http://politicalbots.org/?p=711) discovered that these bots – computer Twitter accounts that post messages automatically – made up 39.1% of sampled tweets supporting his cause in the aftermath of the first presidential TV debate on 26 September.
> 
> Analysed by sifting 4.5 million political tweets for pro-Trump hashtags, this means that a staggering 1.76 million messages of support were posted in his favour by machines rather than people.
> 
> In case it sounds as if Hillary Clinton is being left out, she appears to have her own bot army, albeit a smaller one that tweeted 612,000 messages (13.6%) preferring her.

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