Beyond trying to better understand the incident, we turn our attention to the impacts. Specifically, the topic of this update explores the impact on conversation. How did news outlets talk about the story? What voices were loudest in the conversation? How (if so) did the dialogue compare between partisan voices? How did engagement with the bots compare to the event itself? What did people say about it?

Did a single person create the suspected bot attack in which hundreds of users posted about the Conservatives’ rally in Kirkland Lake, Ontario?