Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/18/robot-armies-click-for-trump.html
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The nice things about these “How To Spot A Bot” tips is that even if it’s a false positive, they double nicely as “How To Spot A Person You Wouldn’t Want To Interact With Anyway”
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Well, when people like Palmer Luckey of Oculus fund shitposting squads from 4chan, it doesn’t surprise me.
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I’m not quite sure where we took a wrong turn; but I don’t think that ‘the future’ was supposed to involve crude expert systems screaming inanities at one another with ever increasing speed.
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“High-frequency berating”
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You should create an iteration of the Solanas bot that includes references to Trump…
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More than once on twitter I’ve been called an outsourced hillary troll
Does this mean I’m doing it right or am I being visited by a 'bot?
In the Trumpian universe you accuse others of the exact thing you are doing.
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“Bots also tend to follow many more accounts than than they are followed
by in turn - a sign that they do not have real friends or work
colleagues.”
Hey! I am not a robot.
wipes away tear
Following: 901
Followers: 232
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For those occasions, I suggest:
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