Posted on 01/26/2018 12:51:39 PM PST by PJ-Comix
The Russian bots are coming! The Russian bots are coming! You don't believe me? Well, the media is assuring us it must be true. How did they verify this? Why by citing a website called the "Alliance For Securing Democracy" which, along with being chock full of fancy graphs and charts that come in pink and pretty colors, assures us they have found 600 (not 601 or 599 but a nice round 600) Russian bots promoting #ReleaseTheMemo on Twitter which explains why it is trending in a big way. However, amidst all this hoopla just one not so little thing seems to be missing: names. Yes, after all that effort by AFSD they very conveniently fail to reveal the names of those insidious Boris and Natasha bots taking their orders from Fearless Leader.
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Because they have bats in the belfry.
Bots in the belfry.
The local f*cking media keep putting the words “Russia investigation” at the bottom of the screen. This is to keep people thinking that Trump is going to be found guilty.
They’ve apparently not seen my tag.
Whenever I read of “Russian Bots,” or “Russian Operatives,” my subconscious substitutes “Tooth Fairy.”
DC Swamp paper of record for IC leaks worried about disguised undue influence.
I am a Putin bot and I approve this message.
Buy American, huh!
I ran statistics on that hashtag and people posted to this hashtag in the last 100 tweets less than 2 times, a bot would be posting all the time aggressively spamming it. I didn’t see that.
Any media outlet could have paid 20 dollars for a complete analysis of this hashtag to see if there are specific accounts posting 24 hrs a day every day which would be the signature of a bot. They would also be able to see if this is a primary driver of a hashtag or other posters are really driving the majority of the activity.
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