The left isn't employing a bot army to spread propoganda.
Some might disagree. An excerpt from
Huff Post dating back a few months:
Take Sally Albright, a
Democratic Party communications consultant who backed presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton in 2016. Unsurprisingly, Albright is vocally opposed to President
Donald Trump and a big supporter of the resistance to his administration. She is also one of the loudest, most divisive voices attacking Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Clinton's onetime Democratic primary opponent, and his left-wing supporters.
Well after the primary, Albright continues to claim that Sanders is a fraud, a liar, racist and corrupt, among many other things. In one instance she declared that the policy idea of free college, as promoted by Sanders,
was racist. This provoked Sanders supporters to argue back.
Trevor, a Sanders supporter who declined to provide his last name for fear of being doxxed, but goes by
@likingonline on Twitter, noticed a strange pattern of behavior when Albright responded to him. Her tweets addressing him were rapidly retweeted by the same series of accounts. This created a barrage of notifications making it look as though there was an avalanche of opposition to everything he said.
But as Trevor discovered, after an
extensive amount of research that he posted online, these were not normal accounts. They appeared to be bots ― automated accounts masked as real people being used to amplify a particular political message. Who is really pulling the strings, however, remains a mystery.
Albright told HuffPost that the accounts were voluntarily handed over by their original users to an unnamed client of hers to be automated in "an analytics program." She said she was bound by a non-disclosure agreement and could not disclose who was collecting and automating these accounts or for what purpose.
But like her, these accounts were all pro-Clinton, anti-Trump and anti-Sanders.
