Presidential Twitter Bot Experience

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Until a few months back, Argentina had a monarchy-styled government that included huge corruption, nepotism, and political violence. N�stor Kirchner was president for four years, then his wife, Cristina Fern�ndez de Kirchner, was president for the following eight years. Instead of giving press conferences, she used the official Twitter account (@CFKArgentina) to spread Goebbels-styled propaganda, send threats to the opposition, and exalt fanatics of all kinds. This talk will explain the adaptation of an old chatter bot engine designed for a porn web site that now is used for a fake presidential Twitter account. Day by day, lots of political tweets are answered by this bot and almost no one detects that a piece of code is responsible for the mise-en-sc�ne.