Fake US election-related accounts proliferating on X, study says

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NEW YORK : Fake accounts posting about the U.S. presidential election are proliferating on the social media platform X, according to a social media analysis company's report shared with Reuters exclusively ahead of its release on Friday.

A hand is seen on a laptop with binary codes displayed in front of the USA flag in this illustration taken, on Aug 19, 2022. NEW YORK : Fake accounts posting about the U.S. presidential election are proliferating on the social media platform X, according to a social media analysis company's report shared with Reuters exclusively ahead of its release on Friday.

The analysis shows that newly detected fake accounts had increased up to tenfold during March and April. X and other social media platforms have been under greater scrutiny since 2016, when Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election in an attempt to boost Trump's candidacy and harm his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Election officials and online misinformation experts are again watching for misleading narratives ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

"The level of coordination suggests that there is a nefarious objective and that there is a whole operation in order to change people's opinion,” said Cyabra’s vice president, Rafi Mendelsohn.

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