According to liberals, there isn’t anything bots can’t do.
Via Free Beacon:
A pair of liberal clickbait sites retracted or made significant revisions to stories that initially claimed racist bots were the real reason Al Franken resigned from the Senate.
Newsweek claimed that “An Alt-Right Bot Network Took Down” the Minnesota Democrat, who resigned in January after seven women accused him of sexual harassment or unwanted touching. Raw Story likewise claimed that “White nationalists and Twitter bots fueled the war against Al Franken — and the Democrats fell for it.”
Both stories initially claimed that an army of 400 Japanese-owned bots started the backlash against Franken “just before Democrats started calling for Franken to step down” and “just days prior to Democrats calling for Franken to step down.”
There were indeed a few hundred bots pushing a link to a Japanese website with an English-langauge op-ed titled “Dear Al Franken, I’ll Miss You but You Can’t Matter Anymore” in December. But the op-ed in question was written on Dec. 7, the day after the vast majority of Senate Democrats called for Franken’s resignation.