Twitter bans bots that spread pro-Saudi messages about missing journalist
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/twitter-bans-bots-spreading-pro-saudi-messages.html
A network of suspected Twitter bots was suspended Thursday after appearing to coordinate the spread of pro-Saudi talking points about the alleged killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
NBC News first reported the suspension after presenting Twitter with a list of hundreds of accounts that spread identical pro-Saudi government tweets at the same time.