Twitter.  Entertaining as it is, it may destroy us.  First, you have Trump’s tweets. And last, you have Trump’s tweets.

And then the bots.  This study shows that the Coronavirus is causing more than double the amount of bot activity than anything else ever has.  It is used to spread conspiracy theories which leads to uncertainty and that divides us even more.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.

To analyze bot activity around the pandemic, CMU researchers since January have collected more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19. Of the top 50 influential retweeters, 82% are bots, they found. Of the top 1,000 retweeters, 62% are bots.

The the rightwing wants to talk about fake news?

Chatter away at the robots, Chucky.