Russian bots are rallying behind embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham as advertisers dump her show

[blondebanshee]

Russia-linked Twitter accounts are rallying in support of Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she drew scorn for mocking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg's grades on Twitter.





[link:http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-bots-support-fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-amid-advertiser-exodus-2018-3|

[blake2012]

1. Of course. They will never stop. They must be forcibly stopped. Trump wont lift a finger

Because A) they help his lying cause and B)his Twitter following would shrink to half its current size if they went after these accounts full scale.

[lpbk2713]

2. They probably don't give a rat's ass about Ingraham.

They just know they are being disruptive. And that's what counts.

[democratisphere]

3. So where are the Twitter-Sh'tter police to stop them?!

*****crickets***** *****crickets*****

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Nothing will change.

Until we change it.

[bitterross]

5. It is clear the BUSINESSES Twitter, Facebook, etc. all want the bots

I'm an IT guy. I know these bots can be blocked. From simple things like blocking geo-locations to using artificial intelligence to spot and block them.

These companies spend tremendous amount of money on AI to figure out how to coerce and corral us all. They could very easily use AI to figure out who bots are vs real people. It's not even that though. When I look at someone's profile on sites and see that it is anonymous and they post every two to five minutes I'm pretty sure they're a bot. If I simply matched that pattern to their geo-location I'd probably filter out a ton of Russian bots. That leaves me a slightly more, but not impossible, task of finding the ones that are using anonymizers to hide their location and the ones who are live people.

It is clear they don't want to do this because the bots drive real, live people like us to respond and see their sites. It drives revenue. That is why it will not stop.

[PSPS]

6. You're right, of course. This could all stop with a just a few mouse clicks.

Les Moonves' own quote can be applied here: "It (trump, russian bots fomenting discord, division) may be bad for the country, but it's great for CBS (or facebook, Twitter, YouTube/Google, etc.)

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[Cha]

8. Scurry about you little rat infested

Russian bots.. we're on to you.. some of us always were.