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struggle4progress

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Mon Aug 7, 2017, 02:57 AM Aug 2017

Shout out to a Twitter bot

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President Donald Trump’s 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
! struggle4progress Aug 2017 #2
Think of all the problems this would solve! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2017 #3
Washington Post article from February about twitter bots... PoliticAverse Aug 2017 #4
Twitter suspends army of fake accounts after Trump thanks propaganda bot for supporting him PoliticAverse Aug 2017 #5
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