BotSlayer Screenshots (IMAGE)

Indiana University

BotSlayer Screenshots

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The upper image from BotSlayer shows a group of bots retweeting two impostor accounts to promote a cryptocurrency, a common "pump-and-dump" scheme used to artificially boost the currency's value. The lower image shows a visualization of this activity in Hoaxy.

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Indiana University Observatory on Social Media

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