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X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

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X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X pro…

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  1. 2026-09-01 15:31 · The Next Web
    X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

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