Cenk Uygur
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Twitterbot Trolls The Trump Trolls For Days...
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October 15, 2016
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6:01Now PlayingSarah Nyberg has programmed a Twitter bot specifically designed to troll the altright Trump trolls littering the internet. It got into an epic ten hour tweet battle with one enraged Trump fan. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“For women online, it’s a sad fact that harassment and trolling aren’t going away anytime soon. However, activist Sarah Nyberg is fighting back with a Twitter bot that makes harassers and trolls look ridiculous. The bot, which goes by the handle @arguetron, generates statements meant to provoke disagreement (to put it mildly) from racists, sexists, neo-Nazis, Islamophobes, Gamergaters, and anyone else who’s looking for a fight on the internet.
Statements like “I feel sorry for you if you like Julian Assange” or “Muslims should be able to wear the hijab if they wish.” With the username “Liz,” the bot is implicitly presented as a female Twitter user to further bait the trolls.
To be clear, this isn’t a case of pouring oil on a trash-fueled fire. The bot doesn’t engage with anyone unless they tweet at it first. As Nyberg told The Verge, it just tweets “simple things like ‘never listen to Donald Trump’ or ‘trans women are women,’ yet it’s enough to outrage a lot of the reactionaries that search for people to have fights with.”
And that outrage, despite its vicious and hateful nature, can also be hilarious. Although the bot’s early tweets are no longer available (perhaps because its audience has started to catch on), Nyberg kept screenshots of its best interactions. These include the irony of Trump supporters trying to get the bot shut down for harassment, good old-fashioned unwanted sexual advances toward the Twitter bot, and someone who argued with it for almost 10 hours.”*
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