<div> <div> <div> <p>The proliferation of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB)—specifically the deployment of malicious bot-farms and bot-herds—presents a unique challenge to modern information ecosys- tems. These entities do not merely spread falsehoods; they exploit the cognitive heuristics of human users to manufacture consensus.</p> <p>Traditional defenses against CIB have historically relied on an algorithm-centered paradigm, prioritizing automated detection s…