Nikki Haley: Digital foot soldiers: Pro-Trump bots swarm Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley on Twitter
Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts - perhaps hundreds of thousands of them - to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump's critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that…