3/6/2023

2024 ELECTION/NIKKI HALEY/RON DESANTIS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.

Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that the Florida governor couldn’t beat Trump, but would be a great running mate.”

-David Klepper, “Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley,” apnews.com, March 6, 2023