Bots of Hashtag Resistance & Weapons of Mass Destruction with Paul Blumenthal

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Katie Halper

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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Mini bonus & show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17793385 Gabe & I talk about Iraq, Vietnam, Irish twins, horror films, Colin Powell's Yiddish, Mike Pence's social life and Danzig. Then I talk to Huffington Post journalist Paul Blumenthal about Sally Albright's network of bots, Shareblue, Correct the record and more.

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0:00.0	Yeah, okay. Yeah. Okay.
0:05.0	Okay. Hello and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. You can hear the Katie
0:19.0	Helper Show every Wednesday at 7 PM on WBAI that's 99.5 FM or WBAI.org
0:25.8	You can also find us on SoundCloud and on iTunes where you can rate and review us and
0:31.2	you can find us on Facebook.
0:33.0	On today's episode, we speak to Huffington Post journalist Paul Blumenthal about his piece,
0:37.0	how a Twitter fight over Bernie Sanders revealed a network of fake accounts.
0:41.0	One Democratic Party consultant said an unnamed client
0:44.6	controlled many of these accounts. And that Democratic Party consultant is
0:48.8	Sally Aubrey and the person who used a bunch of statistics and tools and things I'm incapable of using, to discover that she was running a troll farm is someone who goes by the name liking online.
1:00.0	I interviewed him and he's really interesting and my interview with him is available to our
1:04.1	Patreon subscribers at patreon.com slash the Katie helper show. Again that's patreon.com slash the Katie Helper Show. Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper show I'm your host Katie Halper and you know
1:27.4	what's happening I'm being joined of course bye it's been a while but he's back
1:31.9	he's back in action it's been a while, but he's back. He's back in action
1:33.8	It's the one the only gay pacheco.
1:36.5	Gabe pacheco. Welcome back. I'm back. How's life? Oh life is fantastic man. I was just uploading new pictures to my Instagram. I uploaded this
1:46.9	insane photo of this wealthy super villain Jeff Bizos and he's walking this robot dog. I'm super excited that he is making
1:56.9	robot dogs because I'm allergic to real dogs. Oh there you go. So hopefully these like 2.0
2:02.3	robot dogs will take over the whole market and then we can just euthanize the organic
2:08.0	Don't ever don't even don't do not even say that it's not even funny just so that I can visit all of my friends that have you know want
2:15.8	Sure how about we don't euthanize the ones who are alive though
2:19.1	Maybe sterilize them phase them out that's a. We're going to do a mass dog sterilization
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