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“On RoBhat Labs’ Botcheck.me, a website created by two Berkeley students to track 1500 political propaganda bots, all of the top two-word phrases used in the last 24 hours — excluding President Trump’s name — are related to the tragedy: School shooting, gun control, high school, Florida school. The top hashtags from the last 24 hours include Parkland, guncontrol, and guncontrolnow.” —
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Botcheck.me,
bots,
Fake news,
mass shooting,
misinformation,
RoBhat,
Russia,
Russian trolls,
Twitter,
Twitter bots
