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


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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.

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