Tim Scolnick | Are Climate Deniers and Front Groups Polluting Online Conversation With Denier-Bots?

There appears to be an increasingly sophisticated and planned effort by conservatives and polluter front groups to use “persona management” software to pollute social media outlets and website comment forums with auto-generated sockpuppet swarms designed to mislead and misrepresent real people.

Flashback: Chatbot Debates Climate Change Deniers on Twitter so You Don’t Have to | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Every five minutes the bot searches Twitter for tweets relating to climate change denialism, and automatically responds to the posters