Fake news spreads ahead of French election

By Nick Miller
Updated April 23 2017 - 8:03am, first published 7:57am

Lille, France: So called 'Twitter bots' that masquerade as real people and spread fake news and propaganda on social media have been detected in action in France in the lead-up to this weekend's presidential election.

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