11: The Twitter Bots Are Coming...FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE (w/ Trevor aka @LikingOnline)

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03/30/18 • 76 min

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Twitter bots...you're DOOMED. Trevor aka @LikingOnine and host Matt Binder discuss how each of them recently uncovered the mystery sources behind two major political Twitter bot farms, how these two seperate bot networks were being falsely attributed to Russia, and how one of the people unmasked (Dem consultant Sally Albright) is someone who gins up the Russia bot hysteria themselves.

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Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Matt Binder's Twitter bot investigation in The Outline: https://theoutline.com/post/3951/how-to-make-money-off-americas-love-affair-with-fake-news

Trevor aka @LikingOnline's Twitter bot analysis: http://shareblueastroturf.netlify.com/

HuffPost article by Paul Blumenthal with statements from Sally Albright: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democratic-bot-network-sally-albright_us_5aa2f548e4b07047bec68023?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

Show links:

Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Matt Binder's Twitter bot investigation in The Outline: https://theoutline.com/post/3951/how-to-make-money-off-americas-love-affair-with-fake-news

Trevor aka @LikingOnline's Twitter bot analysis: http://shareblueastroturf.netlify.com/

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