MAGA Bots on X Are Divided over the Trump-Epstein Backlash

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, researchers say.

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OPINION: TRUMP BOT MELTDOWN: Trump's Epstein contradictions befuddle programming meant to mimic MAGA @maddow.msnbc.com on a collection of Twitter chat bots programmed to say supportive things re: Trump, but struggling to reconcile his connections to Epstein. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uzg ...

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... But with the MAGA movement split over the administration's handling of files involving deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the accounts' messaging has broken, offering contradictory statements on the issue and revealing the AI-fueled nature of the accounts.

The network, tracked for NBC News by both the social media analytics company Alethea and researchers at Clemson University, consists of more than 400 identified bot accounts, though the number could be far larger, the researchers say. Its accounts offer consistent praise for key Trump figures, particularly support for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-20 05:09 PM | Reply

Pariser's silo is now complete.
read.dukeupress.edu

#2 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-07-20 06:04 PM | Reply

FAGATS vs MAGATS

May they all die a horrific, terrible, long lasting and painful death

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-20 11:24 PM | Reply

Where's that client list Pam Bondi enthusiastically volunteered, in safe Faux News space, was on her desk?

List or no list, this Trump sheetshow really does smell like a game of Lewzers' Effup Coverup Effup.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-21 05:25 AM | Reply

You'd think someone with the files to prove his innocence would release the files to prove he is innocent.

Again.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-23 10:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

FAGATS vs MAGATS
May they all die a horrific, terrible, long lasting and painful death
#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-20 11:24 PM

[reaches arm in] "And my rainbow!"

#6 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-23 07:11 PM | Reply

@#3 ... May they all die a horrific, terrible, long lasting and painful death ...

What's your issue with homosexuals?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-23 10:15 PM | Reply