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My comments in the Washington Post on disinformation online in the run-up to #cndpoli #trudeau #cdnpoli washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
"Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor of Middle East studies and digital humanities at Hamad bin Khalifa University, recently looked into the suspicious hashtag #TrudeauMustGo that appeared on Twitter in the past few weeks.
He found that “a large percentage (14-15%) of all accounts tweeting on the “Trudeau Must Go” hashtag are angry MAGA bots and/or trolls.” He also found that the #Trudeaucorruption hashtag was mostly run by the same accounts..."
...Faceless, nameless bots and trolls affecting what we talk about and how we talk about it"
