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How social media is used to manipulate electorates
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![What's certain is that someone was trying to get Leonard in the game. When we began to ask experts whom it might be, many suggested asking Parscale. A former Spurs season-ticket holder, Parscale directed Trump's digital efforts during the presidential campaign from a low-slung building along the 410 freeway in northern San Antonio. A Bloomberg report detailed his mastery of the emerging art of exercising digital influence. The technique focused on using more than 100 people to solidify the positions of likely Trump supporters- and sow doubt wherever influential groups of Clinton supporters gathered online. When asked in January if he was behind the bots voting for Leonard, Parscale wrote in an email, "No, I didn't even know Kawhi was up for the award. I have been very busy with getting Trump elected." But he did quickly suggest that the system has vulnerabilities "Here's the issue: There's no way to perfectly lock this out, and the way [the NBA] did it is designed to create narrative," Parscale said. "There's no way around it. I might have 1,ooo technical ways to make it limited, but there's no way it's locked in."](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/244/682/f40.jpg "Pascale on Trump's digital campaign")
