X Sees Tenfold Increase In Pro-Trump Fake Accounts

May 24, 2024 Social Media, Trump cultists

Fake accounts posting about the U.S. presidential election are proliferating on the social media platform X, according to a social media analysis company’s report shared with Reuters exclusively ahead of its release on Friday.

Analysts from Israeli tech company Cyabra, which uses a subset of artificial intelligence called machine learning to identify fake accounts, found that 15% of X accounts praising former President Donald Trump and criticizing President Joe Biden are fake.

The review included analyzing popular hashtags and determining sentiment in terms of whether posts are positive, negative or neutral. The analysis shows that newly detected fake accounts had increased up to tenfold during March and April.

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👀Fake US election-related accounts proliferating on X, study says https://t.co/e1eholWzrq by Stephanie Burnett and @hcoster for @Reuters @ReutersUS @ReutersPolitics

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