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Podcast: Call It Like I See It
Episode: Nancy Mace's Bot Armies and Burners: Digital Manipulation or Politics as Usual?
Description: James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana react to reports about the extent to which South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace and her staff have been using things like bot armies, burner accounts and other social media techniques to boost her public profile and perception (and not just while campaigning but also while she has been in office), and consider whether her alleged approach is business as usual, an outlier, or a natural progression as far as politician behavior.
Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts to boost profile, report claims: ‘It’s what she does...