Friday, July 28, 2017

Study: Bots accounted for a third of all pro-Trump Twitter activity during the debate


Donald Trump was the clear-cut winner of the September 26 Presidential debate in the United States. Regardless of what the news outlets say — or your sensibilities tell you — for one night, Trump was king — at least on Twitter. But as with all things surrounding the 2016 Presidential election, it might not be that simple. A University of Oxford study indicates he may have had some help in the form of pro-Trump Twitter bots. These deplorable-bots (can we make that a thing?) tweeted approximately 576,178 times, accounting for nearly a third (32.7 percent) of all pro-Trump posts that evening and…

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