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		vthallam on Feb 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfer... Yes. For a start, realizing the impact of the bots on FB and Twitter and countering them with more bots. There's some really dark stuff on FB groups and twitter bots which reply with images to popular accounts. You could counter by bots which could favorite better tweets and stop the propaganda.

codezero on Feb 16, 2018 [–]

You think she wouldn’t have been derided for the use of bots, but the already effective and operational botnet working against her?

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