Microblogging sites have emerged as the go-to-platform for storage and dissemination of news [4]. It has however become a tool for sharing misinformation with a sizable majority of the work executed by bots [3]. Bot, short for robots are computer software that respond to input and automated tasks in the execution of commands [1]. Advances in technology has made it very difficult to distinguish between humans and bots with studies relying on feature extraction, exploration and classification techniques [2, 3]. We automate the process by creating a bot that detects malicious bots with high accuracy.

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