Cardi B Threatens Lawsuit Amid Explosive Nicki Minaj Bot Allegations

Cardi B on Monday threatened authorized motion in opposition to a Republican political strategist who accused her of being linked to an organization behind a report alleging that hundreds of bots amplified Nicki Minaj’s social media exercise.

The dispute spill throughout Twitter (typically known as X) in a public dispute acquired nasty.

Alex Bruesewitz, a Republican strategist and former aide to President Donald Trump, claimed on the social platform that Cardi B threatened to sue him. He then mentioned she deleted the publish after he introduced details about a consultant allegedly tied to Cyabra. Cyabra is taken into account a disinformation detection that anchored a report on Nicki Minaj’s social media exercise.

“Former Kamala Harris surrogate and rapper @iamcardib, who just lately threatened to bodily assault ICE officers in the event that they got here to her reveals, simply threatened to sue me, however instantly deleted her menace after I supplied info that her rep is, in reality, concerned with the corporate that produced the @NICKIMINAJ ‘bot’ hoax!” Bruesewitz wrote. “You didn’t need to delete it, Cardi!”

Cardi B fired again forcefully, in a profanity laden response that went viral instantly.

“First, please present me the place I’m affiliated with this particular person or they affiliated to anyone that I work with… I don’t haven’t any affiliation to Roc Nation you dumb ass! Second, the conspiracy theories with Roc Nation is getting very ridiculous, y’all beginning to act like they the Russians or one thing. The truth that you’re employed for the federal government and defaming my identify with false allegations.. I’m going to f#cking sue you. Get acquainted with my sport!!!” she wrote on the platform.

The dispute unfolded in opposition to the backdrop of a Politico report inspecting social media exercise tied to Nicki Minaj. In keeping with Politico, an evaluation compiled by Cyabra recognized greater than 18,000 bots that amplified Minaj’s posts on X between Nov. 11 and Dec. 28.

The report described “a coordinated community of bots” that boosted Minaj’s content material, notably as she leaned into conservative political commentary and appeared alongside Trump on the Trump Accounts Summit.

“Supportive feedback generated by faux profiles had been predominantly transient, repetitive, and low in semantic complexity, consisting largely of praising key phrases and constructive hashtags fairly than authentic or substantive engagement,” the Cyabra report discovered, in response to Politico.

Cyabra CEO Dan Brahmy informed the outlet, “We don’t actually see a number of excessive quantity, excessive influence orchestration of unhealthy and pretend actors inside that intersection of the geopolitically pushed and music tradition. It’s scarce in our area to see the mix of the unhealthy and the faux on-line world with the leisure world.”

There isn’t any public proof introduced within the Politico report linking Cardi B to Cyabra or to the bot community described in its findings.