Showing posts with label bots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bots. Show all posts
Saturday, March 10, 2018

New MIT study suggests that people simply prefer fake news to real news.

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Courtesy of The Atlantic :   The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s e...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Conservatives freakout as Twitter purges Russian bots and they suddenly lose hundreds, and even thousands of followers.

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I've lost close to 1,000 followers offer the past few hours. Major purge underway. — Richard 🐉 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) February...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

How the take down of Al Franken was orchestrated by the Right Wing and supported by Russian Twitter bots.

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Courtesy of Newsweek: While everyone has been focused on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election to support Donald Trump, the...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Russian bots now flocking to support Sean Hannity in response to boycott of his show. Things that make you go, "Hmm."

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Per @SecureDemocracy 's Russian propaganda tracker (3pm): - #BoycottKeurig is now the #1 overall hashtag & #1 trending hashtag in...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Twitter announces that it will now clearly identify tweets supporting candidates and utilize stronger penalties for those who misuse the social media platform.

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Courtesy of CNBC :   As political pressure mounts on social media companies to say where ads are coming from, Twitter will reveal more i...
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Monday, August 07, 2017

Twitter suspends a number of fake accounts spreading Trump propaganda after he thanks one of them.

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Looks like the fake @protrump45 account @realDonaldTrump thanked has been suspended along with a bunch of other related fake accounts pi...
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Monday, April 17, 2017

Newsweek points out that for a guy who claims not to have any ties to Russia Donald Trump sure enjoys using their dirty tricks.

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Courtesy of Newsweek :   What’s interesting to note, however, is that the Trump media-management style borrows heavily from propaganda t...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Rachel Maddow explains the ability of Russia to sway American public opinion using bots. Everybody needs to watch this!

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Look I know you are busy people but at some point today I implore you to take the time to watch his episode. It is extremely important f...
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