A swarm of bots on Twitter sent out identical, co-ordinated tweets this week about a proposed smart city project in Toronto.
After the tweets caught the attention of journalists and privacy experts, Twitter suspended the accounts, but the moment provided a valuable glimpse into the inner workings of these kinds of networks and the techniques being used to make bots harder to detect.
Find out more at CBC News:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/twitter-botnet-sidewalklabs-canada-election-1.5206900
