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Ron Paul online support held up by bots?

November 2nd, 2007 by Andre · 2 Comments

Ron Paul photoThat’s the word from Gary Warner, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s director of research in computer forensics and others in an article on Wired.com earlier this week. It’s made the rounds throughout the blogosphere and it’s beginning to show its face in mainstream media.

The story maintains that Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul (pictured) had no involvement in an aggressive spamming bot campaign that is said to have inflated Paul’s online poll and support numbers. Makes you wonder just how accurate will these online polls will be as elections become more sophisticated?

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2 comments so far ↓

  • 1 PM // Nov 2, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    No, e-mail spam does not translate into online poll votes, test message votes, article comments, or blog entries.

  • 2 Magic Traffic Bot (website) // Feb 10, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    They did it using this program to fake votes and clicks etc.

    http://www.magictrafficbot.com

    It aint that difficult.

    Joe

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