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Re:Sad bot truth about the 400K retweets of “Delete your acc... by heavymark on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:32PM (#11879776)
There are bots on both sides, but there is no proof that either Trump or Hillary's teams have bought likes. As anyone can buy likes for a retweet. For instance fans of Hillary (or Trump), or the opposite, enemies, such as followers of Trump or Trump campaign could buy likes/reweets for Hillary in hopes that someone would create a conspiracy that she's buying likes. Or vice versa, Hillary's team or followers could buy likes/followers for Trump to create a conspiracy for him.

So the fact is bots rewtweet tweets, but there according to this article at least 0 facts that anyone on Hillary's official team bought likes for the retweet.

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Re:Sad bot truth about the 400K retweets of “Delete your acc... by therobot24 on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:42PM (#11879848)
what's more likely though?

Random fan buys thousands of retweets/likes, or campaign known for astroturfing (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/correct-...) buys retweets/likes.

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Re:Sad bot truth about the 400K retweets of “Delete your acc... by mmanfrin on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:26PM (#11880965)
It's most likely that the bot is retweeting random or high profile tweets to establish account credibility, as happens with facebook like sellers.

Don't slip to the conspiracy that confirms your worldview so quickly without considering much more likely reasons.

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