Russian bots are springing to the defense of Fox bully Laura Ingraham, according to Business Insider.
As companies yank their ads from Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham’s show in droves, she continues to draw support from one key Twitter demographic: Russian bots.
The advertiser exodus comes after Ingraham insulted Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg’s grades on Twitter. The Fox News host announced Saturday that she would be taking a “pre-planned vacation” amid the controversy.
“Controversy” is too dignified for it. She’s a grown-ass adult who didn’t just see a bunch of her friends shot to death and felt entitled to bully a teenager who did. That’s not a controversy, it’s just hateful mindless shitty bullying in the style of Donald Trump.
On Saturday evening, #istandwithlaura was the top trending hashtag among Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that tracks Russian propaganda campaigns in near-real time.
Per the site’s data, the frequency with which the accounts tweeted the hashtag jumped by 2800% on Friday and Saturday.
“This is why we can’t have nice things” is not a joke any more. It’s the literal flat-footed truth.
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4 responses to “Bots stand with Laura”
With friends like these…
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1869828696368916/?type=3&theater
How long before the SCOTUS decides that bots are people?
Bruce Coppola, I expect that won’t be long, with this SCOTUS (or at least 5 of the 9), but I think I would prefer it go the way I initially read it, in my blurry, before morning coffee eyes this morning – “bats are people”. I could give rights to bats – I’m not sure about bots.