Army of pro-Trump bots attack 2024 rivals and manipulate information
by David Klepper of the Associated Press from Technology | The Guardian on (#69HDV)
Thousands of Twitter accounts post stream of praise for former president and ridicule his critics, including Haley and DeSantis
Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts - perhaps hundreds of thousands of them - to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.
Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump's critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
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