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Live nation executive, he is -- hes saying that this was being caused by kind of a perfect storm here. one there was unprecedented demand for taylor swift tickets. two, they faced this surge of bot traffic from scalpers. when they say scalpers. and for the first time live nation is also pinning the blame on cyberattacks. listen to what joe burchhold said about this just now. >> $5 billion industry in concerts alone in the industry. fueled by practices that run counter to the interest of artists ...

Company live nation blame it on bots or automated consumers. >> we were then hit with three times the amount of bot traffic we ever experienced. >> incredulous senators said other industry faced the same problems. >> they got bot attacks every single day by the thousands. and they have figured it out. >> live nation says its invested over a billion dollars to try to combat the nuisance. ticketmaster and live nation merged in 2010 that raised senate antitrust concerns. but executives dismissed th...

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Money off bernie supporters. john maddes saying "i strongly believe this was not a commercial venture. 13 million bernie supporters were out there to potentially support and vote for bernie. bernie voters were very engaged and contributes millions and bought in countless new supporters. if you could suppress those voters, you could provide yourself an advantage at low cost." and mcclatchy now reports that mcclatchy is reporting that the bot attacks, the bot traffic is part of the fbis counterint...

Cost." and mcclatchy now reports that mcclatchy is reporting that the bot attacks, the bot traffic is part of the fbis counterintelligence investigation into the russian attack on the election and the question about whether or not there was trump campaign cooperation in mount that attack. quoting for mcclatchy "operatives for russia appear to have strategically timed bots to blitz social media with links to o-trumstories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive." "the bots ...

Of them, dont believe that what they were going through that what was washing over their bernie supporter sites they dont necessarily believe that it was people trying to make money off bernie supporters. john maddes saying "i strongly believe this was not a commercial venture. 13 million bernie supporters were out there to potentially support and vote for bernie. bernie voters were very engaged and contributes millions and bought in countless new supporters. if you could suppress those voters, ...

Were sent over the last week of the presidential contest and the researchers determined after all the traffic on twitter about the u.s. election bots produce nearly 20% of it. over a quarter of all traffic came from these malicious bots and the bot traffic was almost entirely pro-donald trump. and some of that dynamic was visible at the time. but now we are starting to be able to put it together in terms of how russia used that particular weapon to basically eat american political discourse duri...

Right after the election, researchers at oxford university published a study of 20 million tweets about the election that were sent over the last week of the presidential contest and the researchers determined after all the traffic on twitter about the u.s. election bots produce nearly 20% of it. over a quarter of all traffic came from these malicious bots and the bot traffic was almost entirely pro-donald trump. and some of that dynamic was visible at the time. but now we are starting to be abl...