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January 31, 2025      12:35 PM

Houston Chronicle reports an army of online bots attacked Speaker Burrows throughout his campaign to preside over Texas House

Reporter Edward McKinley has the details:

An army of automated bots mobilized late last year to attack state Rep. Dustin Burrows on social media as the Lubbock Republican campaigned in a hotly contested race to become the next speaker of the Texas House, according to a data analysis prepared by a Republican social media marketing company and shared with Hearst Newspapers.

The accounts on X blasted Burrows, who went on to win the race, as a “RINO,” “traitor,” and “Democrat shill,” and they promised GOP primary attacks against his supporters.

His main competitor was state Rep. David Cook, a Mansfield Republican who ran as a hardline conservative and promised to sideline Democrats from the policymaking process. Cook was backed by the state party, most of the chamber’s far-right members and some of the party’s most prolific donors.

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