Amber Heard’s treatment on Twitter during Johnny Depp trial was ‘flagrant abuse,’ report says

Finding shows that some 627 Twitter accounts were dedicated primarily to tweeting negatively about the 'Aquaman' actress and her supporters. Photo: AFP

Amber Heard got a lot of flak on social media during her defamation trial with Johnny Depp. Now comes a report that, perhaps unsurprisingly, shows that not all of that negativity was organic.

Bot Sentinel, a research firm that uses data science and artificial intelligence to detect and track bots, trolls and suspect accounts on Twitter and elsewhere, released a report Monday (July 18) focused on how Heard was treated during the civil trial.