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    From Russia, with hashtags? How social bots dilute online speech

    Jul 18, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Karen Norris/Staff

    If you search Twitter for the hashtag #FamiliesBelongTogether, a tag created by activists opposing the forcible separation of migrant children from their parents, you might be in for a pop proofreading quiz. 

    That’s because, in some locations in the United States, the top trending term, the one that Twitter automatically predicts as you type it, contains a small typo, like #FamiliesBelongTogther.

    The misspelled hashtag, and others like it, have enjoyed unusual popularity on the social platform. Tweeters

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