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Obama using computer-generated Twitterbots to create appearance of social media support for gun control
February 28th, 2013
(NaturalNews) â All of those Twitter messages that appear to represent millions of people who support President Obamaâs gun control agenda⊠Yeah, many of those are bot-driven. In other words, theyâre fake.
Thatâs what a Republican congressman from Texas is alleging, anyway. He says the presidentâs entire gun control narrative is a fraud being perpetrated over one of the worldâs busiest social media sites.
Rep. Steve Stockton accused Obama Feb. 25 of trying to make support for his gun control positions more muscular than it really is by flooding Twitter with messages from bot-driven programs, The Hill newspaper reported.
Obama, it seems, canât get out of campaign mode.
When your position is weak, spam it to life
The presidentâs âanti-gun campaign is a fraud,â Stockman charged. âObamaâs supporters are panicking and willing to do anything to create the appearance of popular support, even if it means trying to defraud Congress.â
âI call upon the president to denounce this phony spam campaign,â he added.
Needless to say, the president has yet to âdenounceâ anything he has said in regards to pushing for more gun control. And we donât expect he will.
Stockman said that, in response to Obamaâs call for Americans to tweet their congressman in support of new gun control measures he has proposed â such as banning higher-capacity magazines, military look-alike rifles and universal background checks â he only received 16 tweets, but they were all identical. He said a closer examination revealed that only six of them were from real people.
âThe other 10 are fake, computer-generated spambots,â said Stocktonâs office, in a press statement.
As evidence, he said the 10 tweets used default graphics and names and have not engaged in any interaction whatsoever with other people, the congressional newspaper reported. In fact, he said two of the tweets were sent at almost exactly the same time, and both follow just one person: Brad Schneck, the presidentâs former digital strategist.
The Texas lawmaker also said just one of the six tweets from an actual person is a constituent of his in his home state. Here is a rundown of the fraudulent tweets, per Stockmanâs press release:
â They all use the default âeggâ avatar.
â They have account names resembling names automatically suggested by Twitter.
â They have engaged in no human interaction.
â They have tweeted almost nothing promotional, sponsored messages pushing real estate websites and other liberal âgrassrootsâ campaigns.
â They follow mostly MSNBC anchors or media outlets, not actual people.
Stockman also notes that reporter Robert Stacy McCainâs investigation of the fraudulent Obama campaign (available at: The Other McCain) finds the majority of the Obama-supporting accounts were created in fewer than 48 hours before contacting members of Congress.
âIf you are a real person who contacted us about your support for the presidentâs anti-gun campaign, we are listening,â said Stockman. âWe do not agree with you, but we appreciate your sincere opinions and encourage you to continue to contact us.â
âBut,â he continued, âthe vast majority of the presidentâs supporters have no feelings because they have fake profiles from spammers.â He went on to say that Obamaâs anti-gun activists âare trying to defraud Congress using the same scam that sells âmale enhancement pills.ââ
When leadership is out, spam
Some websites were understandably critical of the spamming.
From The Daily Caller:
Schenck describes himself as a âformer digital strategist at #Obama2012 and @ObamaInaugural.â He also doesnât seem to think anybody knows how Twitter works. Or maybe he just doesnât know how Twitter works. Either way, itâs pretty clumsy work for a âdigital strategist.â
These guys think youâre stupid, America. But then, theyâve got some pretty strong evidence to back them up. You reelected them.
Per Twitchy, a site that aggregates Twitter feeds:
âKathleen H. Dittusâ wasnât born yesterday, you know. She â or her Twitter account, at least â was born today. No, she hasnât even been born yet; sheâs still inside that âeggâ avatar, but she canât wait to break out and lend the president a hand with his gun control effort.
The @BarackObama account, fresh off of exploiting Gabby Giffords to push its demand that Congress vote on an assault weapons ban, is doing its best to get #WeDemandAVote trending, but some conservatives are noticing that a lot of the supporters are a little, um, young. They have zero followers, follow no one, and have tweeted just once.
Clearly, the president seems more interested in campaigning than leading. Then again, the measures heâs proposing would have done nothing to stop any of the past gun massacres anyway.
Sources:
The Hill
The Daily Caller
Twitchy | Who Said What
Source: Natural News
February 28th, 2013
(NaturalNews) â All of those Twitter messages that appear to represent millions of people who support President Obamaâs gun control agenda⊠Yeah, many of those are bot-driven. In other words, theyâre fake.
Thatâs what a Republican congressman from Texas is alleging, anyway. He says the presidentâs entire gun control narrative is a fraud being perpetrated over one of the worldâs busiest social media sites.
Rep. Steve Stockton accused Obama Feb. 25 of trying to make support for his gun control positions more muscular than it really is by flooding Twitter with messages from bot-driven programs, The Hill newspaper reported.
Obama, it seems, canât get out of campaign mode.
When your position is weak, spam it to life
The presidentâs âanti-gun campaign is a fraud,â Stockman charged. âObamaâs supporters are panicking and willing to do anything to create the appearance of popular support, even if it means trying to defraud Congress.â
âI call upon the president to denounce this phony spam campaign,â he added.
Needless to say, the president has yet to âdenounceâ anything he has said in regards to pushing for more gun control. And we donât expect he will.
Stockman said that, in response to Obamaâs call for Americans to tweet their congressman in support of new gun control measures he has proposed â such as banning higher-capacity magazines, military look-alike rifles and universal background checks â he only received 16 tweets, but they were all identical. He said a closer examination revealed that only six of them were from real people.
âThe other 10 are fake, computer-generated spambots,â said Stocktonâs office, in a press statement.
As evidence, he said the 10 tweets used default graphics and names and have not engaged in any interaction whatsoever with other people, the congressional newspaper reported. In fact, he said two of the tweets were sent at almost exactly the same time, and both follow just one person: Brad Schneck, the presidentâs former digital strategist.
The Texas lawmaker also said just one of the six tweets from an actual person is a constituent of his in his home state. Here is a rundown of the fraudulent tweets, per Stockmanâs press release:
â They all use the default âeggâ avatar.
â They have account names resembling names automatically suggested by Twitter.
â They have engaged in no human interaction.
â They have tweeted almost nothing promotional, sponsored messages pushing real estate websites and other liberal âgrassrootsâ campaigns.
â They follow mostly MSNBC anchors or media outlets, not actual people.
Stockman also notes that reporter Robert Stacy McCainâs investigation of the fraudulent Obama campaign (available at: The Other McCain) finds the majority of the Obama-supporting accounts were created in fewer than 48 hours before contacting members of Congress.
âIf you are a real person who contacted us about your support for the presidentâs anti-gun campaign, we are listening,â said Stockman. âWe do not agree with you, but we appreciate your sincere opinions and encourage you to continue to contact us.â
âBut,â he continued, âthe vast majority of the presidentâs supporters have no feelings because they have fake profiles from spammers.â He went on to say that Obamaâs anti-gun activists âare trying to defraud Congress using the same scam that sells âmale enhancement pills.ââ
When leadership is out, spam
Some websites were understandably critical of the spamming.
From The Daily Caller:
Schenck describes himself as a âformer digital strategist at #Obama2012 and @ObamaInaugural.â He also doesnât seem to think anybody knows how Twitter works. Or maybe he just doesnât know how Twitter works. Either way, itâs pretty clumsy work for a âdigital strategist.â
These guys think youâre stupid, America. But then, theyâve got some pretty strong evidence to back them up. You reelected them.
Per Twitchy, a site that aggregates Twitter feeds:
âKathleen H. Dittusâ wasnât born yesterday, you know. She â or her Twitter account, at least â was born today. No, she hasnât even been born yet; sheâs still inside that âeggâ avatar, but she canât wait to break out and lend the president a hand with his gun control effort.
The @BarackObama account, fresh off of exploiting Gabby Giffords to push its demand that Congress vote on an assault weapons ban, is doing its best to get #WeDemandAVote trending, but some conservatives are noticing that a lot of the supporters are a little, um, young. They have zero followers, follow no one, and have tweeted just once.
Clearly, the president seems more interested in campaigning than leading. Then again, the measures heâs proposing would have done nothing to stop any of the past gun massacres anyway.
Sources:
The Hill
The Daily Caller
Twitchy | Who Said What
Source: Natural News