Purpose Of The Pro-Regime Bots

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The method, the author acquired his fact are somewhat arguable in term of credibility. Most part of the book, the author doesn’t have any hard evident. He chose to reinforce his argument with web base media, magazine and news artice as a reference. Such example is Arab spring, which caused president Bashar al-Assad to step down from his president position. Author said, “it might be the first civil war to have been fought by both human combatant and bots.” [P.28] Purpose of the pro-regimes bots was to choke of anti-government twit and Sympathist activists from twitter. [P.28] First problem, we cannot quantify how much pro-regimes bots helped president Assad to keep the negative image about him out of the media. Second problem, bolt can make