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The bots who hate Rep. Ilhan Omar: A Q&A
NJ ^ | 11/12/19

Posted on 11/13/2019 2:33:24 AM PST by Libloather

A team of researchers waded through the hellscape of being Rep. IIhan Omar on Twitter and were floored: Of all the tweets that mentioned her, only 30 percent were NOT from accounts that have shared hate speech or overt disinformation, like the baseless claim that she married her own brother or has ties to terrorists.

**SNIP**

Q. What can Twitter do?

A. If we can find the trolls, Twitter can find the trolls. They do remove or suspend some accounts. But in this complicated map of accounts, the percentage that Twitter actually deleted was a drop in the bucket.

Certainly, there are free speech issues. But those are addressed through Twitter’s standards. Have a lexicon of hate speech – it’s like the old George Carlin routine, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” Here are 500 words you can’t use on Twitter, and if you do, you’re going to have your plug pulled. Our study was based on a lexicon of about 1600 hateful words. About a quarter of the Islamophobic tweets didn’t actually contain the words, but overt sentiment.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adultery; muslim; omar; terrorist
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There must be a list of those 1600 words somewhere.
1 posted on 11/13/2019 2:33:24 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Looking for the culprits who maligned a fraudulent criminal invader who should be deported. Everyone of us would like that corporate protection, wouldn’t you?


2 posted on 11/13/2019 2:36:23 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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“ baseless claim that she married her brother”

Really?


3 posted on 11/13/2019 2:40:22 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Libloather

“Baseless claim” she married her own brother? There’s a reason she’s getting divorced.


4 posted on 11/13/2019 2:47:34 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Libloather

More propaganda.

Any dissent on a leftist twitter feed is “russian bots” that need to be deleted for “fake news”.

Any dissent on a conservative twitter feed (that twitter allows to remain) is real and must not be blocked.


5 posted on 11/13/2019 2:47:43 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Libloather
Poor innocent IIhan Omar.


6 posted on 11/13/2019 2:50:34 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Libloather

Pure gaslighting! A bot does not leave a comment proclaiming Omar married her brother. A bot leaves a comment like this” I make $1500 a week working from home with this amazing...blah blah blah”

Journalists = enemy of the people. Journalists are more powerful than politicians due to their unelected status. We can’t vote them out, and not buying their products is not being effective in the end, because journalism is a loss leader, subsidized by the parent companies that make their profits in other ways. Amazon.com can prop up the Washington Post indefinitely, it doesn’t matter if they sell a single copy of the paper, or a single online account.


7 posted on 11/13/2019 2:54:41 AM PST by KobraKai
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“ baseless claim that she married her brother”

If they lie about that, they are lying about "bots" and everything else in the article as well.
8 posted on 11/13/2019 2:56:17 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Libloather

The comments interesting. Most responders trash the article. What is most ironic is that there is a Soros paid troll who is picking fights with every anti-Omar poster.


9 posted on 11/13/2019 2:59:58 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Word is Omar is sick of all the verbiage about her marrying her brother.

So now she’s identifying as a man, and is going to marry her sister.


10 posted on 11/13/2019 3:02:34 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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....and baseless claims that Omar married her own brother and that she hates Jews! The Swine Jews are spreading these lies! LIES LIES LIES!

11 posted on 11/13/2019 3:04:20 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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“There must be a list of those 1600 words somewhere.”
....
I’ll start with two. .....Jew hating, vest wearing, brother humping anti-American muzzie. ....


12 posted on 11/13/2019 3:16:04 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE)
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Meanwhile David Duke (D-KKK) loved her antisemitism and said she’s his favorite member of Congress


13 posted on 11/13/2019 4:12:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: Libloather

Our study was based on a lexicon of about 1600 hateful words.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

That’s where they pulled the number 1600.

These maroons are suffering from end-stage TDS.


14 posted on 11/13/2019 4:24:14 AM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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Burn the witch !!!


15 posted on 11/13/2019 4:29:03 AM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: wastedyears

She’s getting divorced because she had an affair with a married employee.


16 posted on 11/13/2019 4:30:42 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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——the baseless claim that she married her own brother ——

Hmm...... Fooled me. I always thought she married her brother to illegally get him in the USA. And, absent conslusive proof to the contrary, still do


17 posted on 11/13/2019 4:33:28 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Libloather

Can’t take the heat? Then she and her brother should screw off out of OUR country and back to whatever turd world “hellscape” they are from.


18 posted on 11/13/2019 4:38:38 AM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Libloather

I would imagine the percentage is higher for those who insult President Trump with hate speech.

Ban them too.

Pretty soon no more Twitter.

Problem solved.


19 posted on 11/13/2019 4:44:26 AM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: SkyPilot

Perfect!


20 posted on 11/13/2019 4:44:58 AM PST by KobraKai
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