Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 U.N. ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that the Florida governor couldn’t beat Trump, but would be a great running mate.

As Republican voters size up their candidates for 2024, whoever created the bot network is seeking to put a thumb on the scale, using online manipulation techniques pioneered by the Kremlin to sway the digital platform conversation about candidates while exploiting Twitter’s algorithms to maximize their reach.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-twitter-haley-presidential-election-4d61487294f9218855b8e6e89f0c8ccc

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Won't be enough to overcome the serious issues that djt has ... haley and desantis are pretty major

figures on their own to stand up against this crap. Not that I'm defending either of them, they both are chock full of issues, and with twitter messed up w/ muskrat's purchase of twitter, I kind of doubt that the reach will be as effective as before (in pushing the pro-tRUMP agenda).

[Blue Owl]

2. It's like maggots infesting a tapeworm

[lindysalsagal]

3. Gee. I'm so disturbed by this

Not.