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Russian Bots Targeted ‘The Last Jedi’
Russian Bots Targeted ‘The Last Jedi’
Russian Bots Targeted ‘The Last Jedi’
Although Russian bots are typically associated with real-world politics, it turns out that they’re also heavily invested in fictional politics, too — even those in galaxies far, far away. In the new documentary The Director and the Jedi (out now with the digital release of The Last Jedi), director Rian Johnson spends a few minutes discussing a curious development in the Star Wars franchise: Those pesky Russian bots (can we call them droids in this instance?) were staging a social media campaign designed to save…General Hux, of all people.

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