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Twitter bots advertising guns to users tweet using trigger terms
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March 24, 2023
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as posted by the channelElon Musk’s Twitter takeover promised to end internet bots, however, some users are facing a flood of unsolicited replies pushing guns. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz has more on the alarming tweets and the shocking triggers that seems to set these bots off.
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