🕵🏼♂️ X busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricity
X’s Global Government Affairs team identified a 200,000-strong bot farm operating on the platform, with 200 of them posting information designed to influence public perception. Tthe accounts are suspected to have been created by Chinese operators, and that they’re using the accounts to amplify the negative impacts of AI data centers, especially on electricity prices.
The concerns that many residents have about data center developments in their area are indeed valid and true, but so is the threat of foreign intervention in domestic American politics. The internet, social media, and AI have made this easier in recent years, though, so both platforms and people need to be more vigilant than ever.
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