![]() ![]() Still, it’s important to drill down into the details and practical implications of the various proposals. There are circumstances in which it makes sense to require bot accounts to be labeled. The hope is that if bots are labeled to make them more visible to social media users, malicious actors won’t be able to use them to artificially inflate the influence of certain accounts or content or manufacture a false consensus surrounding political candidates or issues of public debate. Policymakers and commentators have since called for regulation to deal with harmful social media bots, most commonly in the form of mandated bot-labeling schemes. ![]() 7, 2016), (reporting on a study finding that 20 percent of election tweets were generated by bots). See Daniel Oberhaus, Election 2016 Belongs to the Twitter Bots, Motherboard (Nov. Bot accounts have a bad reputation, thanks in large part to the thousands of Russian-linked Facebook and Twitter bot accounts deployed at scale to spread disinformation and sow social discord in the lead-up to the 2016 election. One question that has prompted debate about the First Amendment’s role in modern society is: What should we do about “bots” on social media? Bot accounts are online accounts where a substantial majority of the content is generated or posted without direct user input. An essay series reimagining the First Amendment in the digital age
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