PKR campaigning with bots ‘like Umno’, says Rafizi

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The PKR deputy president says this reflects badly on the party and that Malaysians are closely watching the central leadership polls.  Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/05/19/pkr-campaigning-with-bots-like-umno-says-rafizi  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #PKR #RafiziRamli

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00:01PKR Deputy President Rafi Z. Romney claims that bots are being used by certain candidates

00:06running in the party's central leadership elections, lamenting that this makes PKR look

00:11like UMNO.

00:13The Pandan MP said he had a team conducting social media data analysis, which, a few months

00:18ago, detected the use of bots to boost the numbers of reactions on social media to postings

00:23by government ministries and agencies.

00:26He said this had spilled over into the PKR elections, clipping that the party now had a division

00:31in Vietnam, a reference to the registered location of one of those bot accounts.

00:36Adding that his social media platforms were also flooded with bot accounts, Rafi Z blamed

00:40the practice on newer members and called on PKR to be extra careful in recruiting new members.

00:47Rafi Z is in a one-on-one contest with Nurul Iza for the PKR Deputy Presidency, which he won

00:52in the 2022 party elections.

00:54Nurul Iza, who did not contest then, is currently an appointed party vice president.

01:00Separately, Rafi Z said his team decided against contesting the post of PKR Youth Chief as a

01:05respected party president Anwar Ibrahim's advice to leave the party's top posts uncontested

01:10in this election.

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