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June 2, 2016 09:54 am PDT

Lets troll Bernie and Hillary supporters systematically, said Trump fans on 4chan

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Some Donald Trump supporters on 4chan--that time-honored bastion of gentility, courtesy, and sensibility-- hatched a plan on the forum to use sockpuppet Twitter accounts to pit Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters against one other. The plan had a slogan: Lets troll Bernie and Hillary supporters systematically.

Their scheme didnt really work, and has been removed from 4chan. But something like this could be effective in the future--and who knows, another instance of this same political game may be working elsewhere, undetected, right now.

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