The investigation was led by Prof Philip Howard, from the University of
Oxford, and is part of a wider project exploring "computational
propaganda".
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The researchers then analysed which of these had been posted by bots.
They identified an account as such if it had tweeted at least 50 times a
day across the period, meaning a minimum of 200 tweets over the four
days. The results suggested that 32.7% of such pro-Trump tweets had been posted by bots and 22.3% of such pro-Clinton ones.
In total, that represented a total of 576,178 tweets benefiting the Republican nominee and 136,639 in support of the Democratic one.
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