‘Buzzer teams’ are a growing part of politics, helping to churn up religious and racial dividesTo pass them off as real, Alex would enliven his fake accounts with dashes of humanity. Mixed up among the stream of political posts, his avatars – mostly pretty young Indonesian women – would bemoan their broken hearts and post pictures of their breakfasts.But these fake accounts were not for fun; Alex and his team were told it was “war”. Continue reading…
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