The Profiles of Actual Voters This Bot Tweets Seem Too Good to Be True

The American Voter Bot is a Twitter account that posts a profile of a U.S. voter every hour based on Harvard’s 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, which polled 64,600 adults on a range of political topics, from their policy preferences to the votes they cast in the presidential election. Created by the Economist data journalist G. Elliott Morris and MIT Election Lab Research Associate Alexander Agadjanian, the bot purportedly selects a respondent from the study and three of their issue positions at random, along with information about their political party and vote choice in 2016. It then spits out a tweet presenting the information in a first-person statement. For example:

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