opinion. The study, which used interviews and "tens of millions posts on seven different social media platforms during scores of elections, political crises, and national security incidents", found that in Russia, approximately 45% of Twitter accounts are bots and in Taiwan, a campaign against President Tsai Ing-wen involved thousands of accounts being heavily coordinated and sharing Chinese propaganda. Techniques to like, share, and post on social networks were used. The bot accounts were used to "game algorithms" to push different content on the platforms. Real content put out by real people can be covered up and bots can make online measures of support, such as the number of likes or retweets something has received, look larger than it should, thus tricking users into thinking that specific piece of content is popular, a process identified as manufacturing consensus. YouTube YouTube has over 1 billion users each month. This means that many people will likely have a chance to see videos posted by others. With this being such a huge place for propaganda to thrive, terrorist groups like ISIS try to get their videos on YouTube for millions to see. They often post videos of them helping out civilians or kids. Their videos show them being nice to try and change people's opinion about them. However, they also post videos to strike fear into others and to persuade them to join their cause. Fearing their own people will be swayed to join groups like ISIS, ISIS post videos to appeal to extremists: "they make these videos in a way to entice people who are vulnerable to extremist ways." As it is reported in New York Times, "A propaganda video is released by North Korea on YouTube mainly depicting a United States aircraft carrier and a warplane being destroyed in computer-generated balls of fire, the latest salvo in an escalating war of words between the two. The video released by a state media outlet is narrated by a woman and including images of North Korea’s military. According to the video, North Korea’s missiles will be "stabbed into the throat of the carrier," and the jet will "fall from the sky," it warns." Twitter Russia During the 2016 presidential election, 200,000 tweets deemed as "malicious activity" from Russia-linked accounts were outed on Twitter. The accounts pushed hundreds of thousands of these tweets claiming that Democrats were practicing witchcraft and posed as Black Lives Matter