Popular politicians have popular Twitter accounts. However, it turns out that this popularity is sometimes created artificially. The Democratic presidential candidate, the eccentric “leftist” Bernie Sanders, has the most genuine followers on Twitter compared to other politicians, but he has the opposite number of trolls and bots...

In the Russian segment of Twitter, there are about 18 thousand accounts that support the state line in the same terms, writes Global Voices, citing research by analyst Lawrence Alexander. The researcher began by examining the connections of accounts that published the same text about the death of politician Boris Nemtsov. Alexander found ...