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Some Good Human Made a Twitter Bot that Corrects People Who Use the Wrong Pronoun for Caitlyn Jenner

Every now and then something decent happens on the internet, a tiny morsel of goodness that restores your faith in humanity. The new Twitter bot account @she_not_he is one of those morsels.

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It's easy to assume that all things on the internet are hateful and terrible, especially if you're trawling through comments on YouTube. But every now and then something decent happens, a tiny morsel of goodness that restores your faith in humanity. The new Twitter bot account @she_not_he is one of those morsels. It swoops into any Twitter conversation about Caitlyn Jenner and politely corrects anyone using the male pronoun in reference to Jenner. Of course, the bot functions on a pretty simple algorithm, searching for tweets that include both Jenner's name and "he" or "him," so it's not perfect. It recently called out a guy who tweeted "…what [Mike Huckabee] said about Caitlyn Jenner makes him a bad guy." Hopefully the wrongfully corrected Twitter people can appreciate that the robot's intentions are in the right place.

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