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The Magistrate

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3. If Monitors Can Find This Out, So Can The Proprietors, Sir

Reply to Efilroft Sul (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2020, 07:46 PM

May 2020

They could shut this down in a twinkling if they chose, and if they do not, that is the result of a deliberate decision to host this sort of destructive rot.

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Roughly half the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found. [View all] Efilroft Sul May 2020 OP

Putin wants to weaken America leftieNanner May 2020 #1

So does republicans . . Iliyah May 2020 #5

+ 1. nt iluvtennis May 2020 #8

So if you ban half randomly Buzz cook May 2020 #2

I've blocked a ton of them. onecaliberal May 2020 #12

If Monitors Can Find This Out, So Can The Proprietors, Sir The Magistrate May 2020 #3

You know it. Bots are good for business, but not for the public interest. It's a deliberate choice. Efilroft Sul May 2020 #6

Seems about right. Freethinker65 May 2020 #4

bots cause death. warmfeet May 2020 #7

We are being fed bullshit bucolic_frolic May 2020 #9

Here we go again. Hold on everyone! Putin's busy behind the scenes. C Moon May 2020 #10

Putin's goal is chaos dlk May 2020 #11

I read that the original accounts... SergeStorms May 2020 #13

I'll say this about them: They know how to use "freedom" as a fig leaf for their greedy motivations. Efilroft Sul May 2020 #15

Half the accounts, what percent of the tweets? lostnfound May 2020 #14

That's a great question. I'll have to ask my CMU friends. Efilroft Sul May 2020 #16