If Elon Musk is correct, Twitter is lousy with bots. Accounts that run automatically: liking, tweeting and retweeting according to a script. Often relatively simple, these programs are easy to set up ...

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“A good portion of the code that made it into the bot was written in that class,” says Dennis Tenen, a software engineer turned English professor and one of the course instructors. Since Rikers ...