mo4ch:>Bots made me do it! Actor John Cusack retweets ‘antisemitic’ meme, gets ‘cancelled’ in record time | Mo4ch News

Actor John Cusack has been raked over the coals on Twitter after he blamed “a bot” for retweeting an allegedly antisemitic meme featuring a fake Voltaire quote and a large hand emblazoned with the star of David.After briefly attempting to defend the meme, apparently thinking the arm was sporting the Israeli flag, Cusack deleted the tweet, claiming he thought he was retweeting a post about Palestinian justice and blaming “a bot” for leading him astray.The text of his original tweet - “Follow the money” - wasn’t part of the meme, a point his critics were quick to point out. Many wanted to know precisely what kind of very specific bot could dupe someone into making such a post; others simply told him to stop digging before he made it to the center of the earth. “‘A bot got me’ is just as weak as ‘I was hacked,’” one user pointed out.Cusack further complicated things with a tweet redefining “bot” as “an alt right account - same thing- not a person but an organized agenda.”Many on Twitter …