2016 Postmortem
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Pro-Trump Chatbots Flooded Social Mediahttps://politicalwire.com/2016/11/18/pro-trump-chatbots-flooded-social-media/
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An automated army of pro-Donald Trump chatbots overwhelmed similar programs supporting Hillary Clinton five to one in the days leading up to the presidential election, according to a report published Thursday by researchers at Oxford University, the New York Times reports.
The chatbots basic software programs with a bit of artificial intelligence and rudimentary communication skills would send messages on Twitter based on a topic Their purpose: to rant, confuse people on facts, or simply muddy discussions.
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applegrove
(118,683 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...because Zuck the Fuck insisted FB was not a media company/outlet, AND they did not want to piss off the conservatives.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)They were pushing the Reno trend after Trump's hair's breath escape from an assassination attempt by a cardboard sign opposing Trump. Fortunately the Great God Emperor escaped without a paper cut.
Someone forgot to program the link in their haste and all the partial-faced alien entities (fake people) made the same mistake in unison. These are all bots and their purpose was to turn the word Reno into the #1 trend while Trump was in Reno and to spin the story away from the protestor getting beaten on the floor, complete with a grope of his testicles. They so flooded Twitter with bullshit and false news that the truth of the beating never made the news. Instead, the entire focus was on Trump getting rushed from the stage, likely also a faked event to make sure the news did not become a guy getting beaten in front of Trump as he watched silently after he told his supporters to "Get him out of here."