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BadgerMom

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4. Twitter is complicit

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Sep 2, 2017, 08:11 AM

Sep 2017

Bots can be spotted. Twitter helps out the bots. Profit uber alles. I left Facebook. I'm considering leaving Twitter. Do laws exist controlling foreign influence-peddling like bots, RT, and/or Putin's DC radio station? What about Fox? Could they operate under some banner that protected speech but categorized it as propaganda?

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How Russian & Alt-Right Twitter Accounts Worked Together to Make #Antifa and #Berkeley Hot Topics [View all] bigtree Sep 2017 OP

Duh! Need "concern" yaknow . Can't be stopping Nazis & Xenos from marching lunasun Sep 2017 #1

Twitter also crushed Team Patriot this week Not Ruth Sep 2017 #2

Very important read sharedvalues Sep 2017 #3

Twitter is complicit BadgerMom Sep 2017 #4

Goes to the heart of their social media strategy Chico Man Sep 2017 #5