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How Twitter bots troll Canadians | The Weekly with Wendy Mesley
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February 17, 2019
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5:33Now PlayingTwitter revealed a list of accounts believed to be bots operated by people with malicious intentions. Wendy Mesley spoke with Radio-Canada journalist Jeff Yates about how trolling has been used to try to influence Canadians' opinions on topics such as pipelines and immigration.
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