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A Bot That Can Tell When It's Really Donald Trump Who's Tweeting

Using machine learning to figure out when the president is writing his own tweets
Source: Paul Spella / The Atlantic

For at least two years, an open secret lurked in the the metadata behind President Donald Trump’s Folks quickly noticed that his boring tweets—event announcements, press releases on polls—were usually sent from an iPhone, probably a staffer’s. The , on the other hand, were generally sent from. Guess which kind of phone Trump

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