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Topic	Turns Out Literal MAGA Bots Have Been Overhyping Hate Against Biden
IMNOTRAGED 08/20/21 4:54:07 PM #34:	Gobstoppers12 posted... Twitter.com But seriously: https://medium.com/dfrlab/battle-of-the-botnets-dd77540fad64 This article does an interesting job of analyzing the trajectory of one specific Twitter trend. It goes over how both pro-Trump and anti-Trump bots contributed to inflating traffic on a particular tending topic. The article you posted specifically says that they aren't anti-Trump bots on the whole lol However, these accounts cannot be characterized as an anti-Trump botnet. They appear automated to tweet anything that various news outlets not just the New York Times publish, regardless of the actual content, from restaurant reviews to sports reports and eBay commercials. Vaguely liberal stances are much more popular so there doesn't tend to be a demand for this sort of bot traffic from the center/left --- https://imgur.com/kkm3QaD "Be ruthless with systems; be kind to people." <cite>IMNOTRAGED posted [p:957274361] in Turns Out ... [t:79623361]...</cite> <quote>Gobstoppers12 posted... </cite> <quote>Twitter.com But seriously: https://medium.com/dfrlab/battle-of-the-botnets-dd77540fad64 This article does an interesting job of analyzing the trajectory of one specific Twitter trend. It goes over how both pro-Trump and anti-Trump bots contributed to inflating traffic on a particular tending topic.</quote> The article you posted specifically says that they aren't anti-Trump bots on the whole lol <quote>However, these accounts cannot be characterized as an anti-Trump botnet. They appear automated to tweet anything that various news outlets not just the New York Times publish, regardless of the actual content, from restaurant reviews to sports reports and eBay commercials.</quote> Vaguely liberal stances are much more popular so there doesn't tend to be a demand for this sort of bot traffic from the center/left --- https://imgur.com/kkm3QaD "Be ruthless with systems; be kind to people."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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