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Pro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville
- JohnTHaller 9y agoAs someone that was once replied to two tweets in on Twitter by some MAGA bot, I've seen the bots there first-hand. So. Many. Retweets. Nearly all happening on a weekend between midnight and 4 AM. Often days after the original tweet. Sometimes with a followup a week later and then two weeks after that. Those absurd Twitter accounts with no actual person associated, a grab bag handle (chosen from Mom, Dad, Christian, MAGA, ForTrump, ForAmerica, Patriot, random red state name, etc), 10s of thousands of followers, and never post anything outside a specific set of topics... are nearly all bots operating on about the same schedule.
- gremlinsinc 9y agoI feel like there's this major unseen propaganda war between us and Russia for the minds of Americans..and sadly we're losing... in a BIG way... It's so sad that people can be compelled by propaganda so easily.