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Twitter Bars Tactics ­sed by 'Bots' to Spread False Stories


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People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw September 27, 2013.

Credit: Reuters/Kacper Pempel/illustration

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts, cracking down on a tactic that Russian agents and others have allegedly used to make tweets or topics go viral.

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