Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs — threatening democracy. Menczer, F. The Conversation, Feb, 2026. ![Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs — threatening democracy [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi bibtex @misc{Menczer2026Conversation,
author = {Menczer, Filippo},
date-added = {2026-02-12 16:12:30 -0500},
date-modified = {2026-02-12 16:14:47 -0500},
doi = {10.64628/AAI.9w9jwuta3},
howpublished = {The Conversation},
keywords = {myown abuse social osome networks agents ai},
month = {Feb},
title = {{Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs --- threatening democracy}},
url = {https://theconversation.com/swarms-of-ai-bots-can-sway-peoples-beliefs-threatening-democracy-274778},
year = {2026},
bdsk-url-1 = {https://theconversation.com/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-testified-that-the-companys-algorithms-are-dangerous-heres-how-they-can-manipulate-you-169420}}
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