A Spanish company that works on digital media projects recently released a study showing that social media 'bots' and 'troll farms' worked in support of the European Soccer Super League last April.A bot is a software program that performs actions automatically, or without human intervention.A troll farm is a place that creates fake accounts and tries to affect the discussion about an issue.The combination of the two works faster than human users.The goal is to create fake trending topics on social media.In the 72 hours after the league was announced, the bots and trolls used over 270,000 new accounts to publish two million tweets in favor of the new league.The Super League involved a number of Europe's top soccer teams.The teams wanted to break away from UEFA and form their own league.UEFA is the organization that runs European soccer.It puts on events like the European championship and the Champions League.The teams included Real Madrid and Barcelona of Spain, Juventus and A.C.Milan in Italy and Manchester United and Liverpool in Great Britain.
