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How Pro-Trump Twitter Bots Spread Fake News
Automated Support
Using hashtags like #CrookedHillary and #TrumpTrain, automated networks of social-media bots disseminated erroneous information throughout the 2016 campaign, with Trump benefiting.
Gideon Resnick
Political Reporter
Published
Nov. 17 2016
1:05AM EST
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast
Gideon Resnick
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