Bots tweeting about Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project raise disinformation red flags

A swarm of bots on Twitter sent out identical, co-ordinated tweets this week about Sidewalk Labs’s smart city project in Toronto, providing a valuable glimpse into the inner workings of these kinds of networks and how they can be used to mislead.

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