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by locknitpicker 117 days ago
> Why would Nicki Minaj (someone with more than 300 million followers across all social media platforms, 26 million on Twitter alone) ever need a bot farm to boost her content?

How many of those 300 million followers are actually bots? The report mentions that around a third of the profiles that engaged in the artist's political content were fake profiles.