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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