Who Let The Bots Out?

In this gripping conversation, CHEQ Co-Founder and CEO Guy Tytunovich explores one of the most alarming threats facing democratic societies today: the coordinated weaponization of bots to spread conspiracy theories and destabilize public discourse.

Drawing on CHEQ’s deep expertise in bot mitigation and digital risk prevention, Guy takes us behind the scenes of how authoritarian regimes are deploying sophisticated bot networks to infiltrate social media, manipulate narratives, and sow division — particularly around elections and moments of political crisis.

What you’ll learn

• Why even rational individuals are vulnerable to conspiracy theories — and how bots exploit cognitive bias
  
• How social platforms enable the viral spread of fringe ideas — and the real-world impact of bot-driven influence campaigns
  
• What governments, tech platforms, and businesses can do to defend against coordinated digital manipulation
  
• How CHEQ detects and neutralizes these threats in real time — helping preserve the integrity of online discourse

This episode is a powerful look into the dark undercurrent of automated influence operations — and what it will take to preserve democratic discourse in an era of information warfare.