– with captchas, multi factor authentication, email verifications and so much more at disposal how are the biggest social platforms still riddled with bots in high percentages ?
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Bots can be written to handle multi factor authentication and email verifications. And it is possible to hire people who solves captchas for bots all day. But a lot of social media platforms will actually promote the use of bots as they do add functionality and integration to their site which makes people want to use it more. For example look at the bots which will post a link to your blog whenever you post a new blog post. If the platforms disabled these bots then it is unlikely that you would post a link manually to all your social media platforms and you would only post it to a couple of them. This would make people move to those platforms instead. So the social media platforms risks loosing users if they disable good bots. However it is very hard to distinguish a bot posting links to new blog posts or status updates and bots posting misinformation. This is something which requires intelligent people who have time to sift through these posts and their contexts. There is no way for a computer algorithm to distinguish good and bad bots.
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