Politicians and corporations will be able to pay and use these bots to influence users on policy and politics like they would with advertisements. They’re cutting out the shadowy troll farm and PR firm middlemen.

“We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.”

I will investigate this claim independently.

It seemed fishy, but I didn’t anticipate that LE would be unprofessional enough to put a bunch of random McD’s employees in the crossfire by lying about them being the ones to report. Then again…

There’s an option to donate on their website here: https://donate.wikipedia.org/ I’m starting monthly at $5 and possibly bumping up to $10 later on.