On believing what you read

Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots

Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions to this problem. Banning or removing accounts won’t work, as more can be spun up for every one that is deleted. Banning accounts that spread inaccurate facts also won’t solve anything. “A lot of disinformation is done through innuendo or done through illogical statements, and those are hard to discover,” she says.

[Note: The term, "bot," here is used in a pejorative sense, as it almost always is. This has a wee tinge of disinformation in itself, as bots can do "good" things too. Nonetheless, we judge the information in this article to be eminently trustworthy.]