A Twitter bot discovered that the Russian government had edited the Wikipedia page on flight MH17, the plane which was shot down earlier this month. In general, bots are automated programs that serve different purposes. Statistics show that Twitter is commonly misused for astroturfing, crowdturfing, spamming and phishing. @RuGovEdits is best categorized as a self-declared bot, but instead of spreading news, it is used to monitor revisions made to Wikipedia by Russian government IP addresses. The source code of this bot is based on another Twitter bot called congress-edits.”]
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