Forget 'Stop the Boats': We Need to Stop The BOTS Causing Ireland's Disinformation Epidemic

The rise of 'Irish Patriotism', when adopted and expressed alongside, and in alignment with, Anglo-American Patriotism and whiteness, is identity that is being pushed as being the 'true Irish' by bots targeting Irish social media: Where there are three times more bots accounts than there are real people. Writer and journalist Goodwill Cxunting explores what a bot is, asks what may be causing these bots, and suggests various motivations for narrative pushing in Ireland.

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