Picture it, your Instagram notifications are blowing up and you just think you're POPPIN'. You see 50-leven requests and that follower count is about to reach influencer-status. Then, you see what's causing all the noise is a slew of avatars featuring weave bundles. Pretty much every Instagram user has experienced it at this point. It's so rampant, it's basically an initiation rite into the social media platform.  Naturally, many internet users believed Russia to be the culprit behind the weave bots, especially given its reputation targeting for targeting black people on  social media . Thus, an investigative report was born, thanks to Broadly . “They’re probably just for-profit spambots,” said Bret Shafer, who tracks internet propaganda at the German Marshall Fund. He did note, though, that black Americans, the apparent targets of the weave accounts, have historically been targets of Russian propaganda. Ben Nimmo, senior fellow for information defense at the Atlantic Council,...