Spambots hijack #PulangMengundi, movement rallies on


PETALING JAYA: Cybertroopers are targeting the #PulangMengundi movement with spambots, stifling communication between voters hoping to travel home for GE14 and the sponsors trying to help them.

On Twitter, the hashtag is buried in hashtag-heavy tweets that neither make a request for help nor offer assistance, effectively spamming the conversation with junk content.

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