I wrote the other day about how malign actors have used bots and fake accounts to boost the profiles of social media “super spreaders” to create a virus-like spread of their message. This post takes a slightly different look at the scale of this bot problem.
The excellent Cyabra took a snapshot of social media on 7th and 8th October, 2023: just after the massacre in Israel, and, most important to note, before Israel had conducted any military action.
Just from this two day period, the scale of fake accounts and their engagement is staggering. The numbers are almost too huge to comprehend.