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Rep. Nancy Mace reportedly asked staff to defend her online with burner accounts.
One staff member told Wired, “We had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, and go and reply to comments, saying things that weren’t true—even Reddit forums.”
Mace (R-SC) also reportedly created burner accounts of her own to “monitor what people were saying about here and bolster her image,” and a recent deposition from her former aid suggested Mace “sits all night on the couch and programs bots” across social media platforms.
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