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Never have political parties had such direct access to so many voters. But recently we have seen the rise of political bots – these bots pose as people and manipulate social media in the attempt to sway public opinion on a particular subject. Hadley Newman from Heriot-Watt University says that such practices are a direct threat to democracy.

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