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Social media in the 2016 election
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So we've been hearing for some time about people being paid to go onto social media sites, Reddit, other places to try to manipulate the information out there in favor of Hillary Clinton. There have recently been allegations that the big Twitter bump Trump had during the debate was bot fueled (though they admit that the GOP would still have had a lead on the site, just not as much) and the same allegations have been made regarding /r/The_Donald in a rather extensive breakdown by a user on the site.

So with these allegations being thrown around at both sides and pretty decent evidence pointing to it happening on both sides, what do you think about this tactic? Do you think this is something we will continue to see more of in the future?
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Social media in the 2016 election - Belsnickel - 10-18-2016, 09:32 AM

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