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Mash tags and trending topics to get more users to engage in a disinformation attack. >> it helps real people see that stuff and engage in it, right? >> exactly. yeah, it's more shut.more insidious, spreads better. >> reporter: nick found russians were buying armies of bots that were difficult to trace. >> essentially you can go to a website that's publicly available and buy 1,000 bots for maybe even just a couple of dollars. >> definitely. >> for $25 i'm buying 10,000 retweets. >> the goal is to seed and fertilize the conversation. one of the things the russians did is use bots to get momentu...

Trending topics to get users to endaj in a disinformation attack. >> it helps real people see that stuff and engage in it, right? >> exactly, yeah. it's more subtle. it spreads better. >> reporter: nick found russians were buying armies of bots that were difficult to trace. essentially can you go to a website that's publicly available and buy 1,000 bots for maybe just a couple of dollars. >> yeah. >> reporter: for $25 i'm buying 10,000 retweets. >> the whole goal is to seed and refertilize the conversation. one thing russians did is use bots to get momentum. once real people start following yo...