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Inside Twitter’s Bot Purge

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Former Twitter engineers talk about the company’s attempt to ‘quietly clean up their mess’ after an overnight purge of fake accounts left far-right trolls fuming.

Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz
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Taylor Lorenz

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