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Election 2018 Digital Misinformation Roundup [1]

['Justin Bank']

Date: 2018-10-20

As Election Day draws near, a growing amount of disinformation is getting published online to confuse, inflame or distract potential voters.

To help readers better understand the information landscape, journalists at The Times have collected five examples of active disinformation campaigns that were reported on or took place this week.

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Twitter took down a bot network supporting the Saudi Arabian government.

On Thursday, Twitter suspended a network of suspected Twitter bots that were sending pro-Saudi Arabian government talking points about the disappearance of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

NBC News, which first reported the suspicious activity, says the accounts were taken down after Twitter was presented with a spreadsheet of hundreds of accounts that tweeted and retweeted the same talking points, like #unfollow_enemies_of_the_nation and #We_all_trust_Mohammad_Bin_Salman.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/us/politics/2018-digital-misinformation-roundup.html

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