gasic_botThe T-shirts arrive a day after an organized action by members of the Serbian Progressive Party, which included the publication of an illustration with the inscription "I love Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party the most in the world. Yes, I am an SNS bot."
The jokes never end, and the ones that are extremely inappropriate. At the moment when the head of the BIA, Aleksandar Vulin, was blacklisted by the US because of his involvement in the trade in narcotics and weapons, and just a few days before that a list of SNS bots was discovered that tirelessly insult Serbian citizens every day on social networks, the Minister of the Interior Bratislav Gašić and the president of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce published photos dressed in t-shirts that read "I am a bot ".
The T-shirts arrive a day after an organized action by members of the Serbian Progressive Party, which included the publication of an illustration with the inscription "I love Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party the most in the world." Yes, I'm an SNS bot".
These t-shirts feature a character from the game "Pac Man" eating sandwiches.
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The outpouring of support for bots and the party followed the publication of a list of more than 14.000 alleged "bot" SNS accounts. Some from the list are allegedly employed in public institutions throughout Serbia. The authenticity of that list has not been officially confirmed.
One of those who declared himself a bot is the mayor of Novi Sad, Milan Đurić.
MJ
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A list of 14.000 alleged bot accounts of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has been circulating on social networks for several days now. Analysis of the published table with names, surnames, district and links to profiles on Twitter revealed that there are about 3.162 people "botting" in Serbia. The "Army of bots" was not invented in Serbia, and one of the most popular is the Chinese "Brigada 50 centi" which "employs" as many as 2 million people
"There is nothing hidden here, we are, we and those 14.500 people will continue to do it," said Milimir Vujadinović, deputy of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) from the parliamentary speaker.
