Invasion of the (Trump) Bots.

[Tiamat]

Someone or some party in the US (not Russia) apparently has been busy making thousands of bots on social media that are pro-Trump and have been going after DeSantis and Hayley. Read and judge for yourselves.

Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley

Researchers have uncovered a network of tens of thousands of fake Twitter accounts created to support former President Donald Trump and attack his critics and potential rivals.

apnews.com

 

[Captain X]

Probably Democrats trying to pull a divide and conquer.

 

[Rocinante]

Probably Democrats trying to pull a divide and conquer.

I don't think this is even SLIGHTLY beyond Trump himself.

 

[Sobek]

Sorry I don't buy it after years of some neolib/neocon Think Tank screaming "bots" over every single anti-establishment point people raised whose claims came from the source of "these accounts are bots trust me bro" and turned out to just be random people in the US and Europe not in line with the Current Thing.

Look up Hamilton 58.

 

[Rocinante]

Sorry I don't buy it after years of some neolib/neocon Think Tank screaming "bots" over every single anti-establishment point people raised whose claims came from the source of "these accounts are bots trust me bro" and turned out to just be random people in the US and Europe not in line with the Current Thing.

Look up Hamilton 58.

I buy it thoroughly.

From what i have read, Up to 80% of FB users are possibly bots, and this is probably true on other social media as well.

They typically don't care and don't want to expose those numbers, because it generates ad income. Advertisers are interested in how many eyes their ads will hit, so bots making the sites look more active help social media companies to make money.

That and it's trivially easy to buy bot farms and troll farms. I'd suspect the left is doing this to some degree because they want Trump to win the Primaries, and beat him in the general. Further, I suspect Trump team is also doing it, because they want to win, too.

It's just bots all over the place.

 

[Bacle]

Trump can beat DeSantis in the GOP primary polls, but Trump lags DeSantis in the swing states needed to win the general election.

I buy it thoroughly.

From what i have read, Up to 80% of FB users are possibly bots, and this is probably true on other social media as well.

They typically don't care and don't want to expose those numbers, because it generates ad income. Advertisers are interested in how many eyes their ads will hit, so bots making the sites look more active help social media companies to make money.

That and it's trivially easy to buy bot farms and troll farms. I'd suspect the left is doing this to some degree because they want Trump to win the Primaries, and beat him in the general. Further, I suspect Trump team is also doing it, because they want to win, too.

It's just bots all over the place.

Trump deploying bots against DeSantis to obscure his lag in swing state polls would be right up Trump's alley.

 

[Captain X]

It would also be right up Democrats' alley, and they have a history of deploying bots on social media in order to appear stronger than they actually are as well.

 

[Rocinante]

It would also be right up Democrats' alley, and they have a history of deploying bots on social media in order to appear stronger than they actually are as well.

Both sides are likely doing it. Toss a few thousand bucks to someone and it's done. That's all it takes.