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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Dec 22, 2016, 04:16 PM Dec 2016

Merkel Feels Hillarys Pain as Web Trolls Take Aim After Berlin

(Bloomberg) -- Twitter user Eylin Tabbert regularly lashed out against Hillary Clinton during the U.S. presidential campaign. Within hours of a truck plowing into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin, she turned her focus on a new target: Angela Merkel. 

“Blood on her hands: Merkel’s open borders blamed for refugee truck terrorist deaths,” Tabbert posted on Twitter, above a manipulated picture showing the chancellor spattered in blood beside an image of the truck used in the attack. 

Eylin Tabbert, who has about 4,000 followers and tweets dozens of times a day under the handle “EylinHurt,” is just one of multiple users now posting angry or abusive messages about Merkel. 

Since Monday night’s attack, the chancellor’s Facebook page has been flooded with hundreds of negative comments, many written by accounts with just a handful or no visible Facebook friends. On Twitter, dozens of users who backed Donald Trump are now posting identical text and images targeting Merkel, suggesting they are robotic accounts -- so-called bots -- waging a larger attack.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/merkel-feels-hillary%e2%80%99s-pain-as-web-trolls-take-aim-after-berlin/ar-BBxr9T1?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Merkel Feels Hillarys Pain as Web Trolls Take Aim After Berlin (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
Hmmm. It's almost like they have something in common . . . Maru Kitteh Dec 2016 #1
Could their common element have anything to do with opposition to a large, cold country? LonePirate Dec 2016 #2
I wonder if she will win reelection yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #3

Maru Kitteh

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1. Hmmm. It's almost like they have something in common . . .
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 04:19 PM
Dec 2016

Something that makes white males in particular feel entitled to attack them in an "unpresidented" way . . . hmmmm.




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