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Re:Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages by lyschoening on Friday November 18, 2016 @11:18AM (#12987782)
Didn't CTR have one million dollars total? That buys a large number of bots or a small number of commenters. In either case, pro-Clinton comments were much too diverse that CTR could have played a big role in them.
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Re:Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages by arcseco on Friday November 18, 2016 @11:34AM (#12987932)
Closer to 10 million[1]. They are also unlike other superPACs. The FEC is limited in it's online jurisdiction to regulate paid political ads because of an “Internet exemption” clause. So they can freely coordinate with a campaign and skirt traditional FEC rules.

[1]https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997

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Re:Automated Pro-Trump Bots Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages by aaron-lebo on Friday November 18, 2016 @11:31AM (#12987912)
Try 10x that:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997

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