LLMMedium
Bots Allegedly Made up Roughly Half of Twitter Accounts in Discussions Surrounding COVID-19 Related Issues
- Occurred
- Jan 1, 2020
- Published
- May 22, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Bots by anonymous actors were found by researchers to make up roughly half of Twitter accounts participating in COVID-19 discussions, many of which posted tweets about “reopening America“.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- Twitter users participating in COVID-19 discussions
- X (Twitter) users
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Bots spreading misinformation on social media is a transparency and manipulation issue, but not a direct LLM failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8