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President Donald Trumps most faithful followers are often found on Twitter sharing racist memes and promoting the hashtag #MAGA. Many of these Twitter users, however, are not registered voters or even human. They are Twitter bots controlled by nebulous groups looking to defend the president from criticism.
Trump interacted with one of these apparent bots on Saturday when he retweeted a message from user @Protrump45, who wrote, Trump working hard for the American people
..thanks ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/06/president-trump-gave-a-shout-out-to-an-apparent-twitter-bot-hasnt-removed-the-retweet/
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Shout out to a Twitter bot (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Aug 2017
OP
I still think they should give him one of these - he wouldn't know the difference:
Rhiannon12866
Aug 2017
#1
Twitter suspends army of fake accounts after Trump thanks propaganda bot for supporting him
PoliticAverse
Aug 2017
#5
Rhiannon12866
(205,927 posts)1. I still think they should give him one of these - he wouldn't know the difference:
struggle4progress
(118,332 posts)2. !
Rhiannon12866
(205,927 posts)3. Think of all the problems this would solve!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. Washington Post article from February about twitter bots...
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)5. Twitter suspends army of fake accounts after Trump thanks propaganda bot for supporting him