Eli5: what exactly is a bot and how does a botfarm work?

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Thanks in advance!

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Bot is just a computer program, usually mimicking a human, it can perform certain task or series of task to automate them. botfarm is huge group of both controlled by one person or organization to perform desired action like fakenews spreading, camping for smth, generating fake wiews on any internet media and so on, whatever owner wants and can do