What Does This Mean?
A coordinated network of automated or semi-automated accounts run from a central point, used to amplify content, inflate engagement or simulate grassroots support on social platforms.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Analysts traced the sudden wave of identical replies to a bot farm."
LORE & ORIGIN
The term describes organised operations that run many accounts, often from different devices and locations through proxies, to like, repost, comment or push topics into trending. It is distinguished from a click farm, which relies on low-paid human workers, and from a botnet, which is built from compromised devices whose owners are unaware. Reported cases include a network of nearly 1,000 accounts on X that the US Justice Department said in 2024 had been created with AI-assisted software for a Russian state media operation. Industry figures on how much traffic bot farms generate vary widely, and there is no settled legal definition. The first use of the term is not documented.
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