Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Hanan Melcer on Friday rejected the Blue and White party's petition against the Likud, claiming Likud had operated a network of fake users on the Twitter social network.
The petition followed the “Big Bots” report that was published earlier this week in Yediot Aharonot and TheNew York Times claiming that a shadowy network of fake Israeli social media accounts, many of them operated automatically by digital “bots”, was spreading election misinformation in a concerted effort to alter the outcome of next week’s vote.
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