Facebook has created a shadowy bot universe to help uncover trolls and scammers

Researchers at the social networking web site said bots are professional to act like bad actors and set unfastened on lots of tens of hundreds of thousands of traces of code to analyse the results and highlight protection gaps.
Researchers at the social networking website said bots are trained to behave like bad actors and set loose on hundreds of millions of lines of code to analyse the results and highlight security gaps.Original article
Author: Newsweek

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