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Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot
Saihajpreet Singh's bots are waging an online battle against progressive politicians in the U.S.
Author of the article:Matteo Cimellaro
Published Aug 06, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 4 minute read
Former Carleton University student Saihajpreet Singh is a 24-year-old software engineer who has designed a MAGA bot on X.
Former Carleton University student Saihajpreet Singh is a 24-year-old software engineer who has designed a MAGA bot on X.
If you’ve been on the social media site X recently to wade into the debate over the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, you may have come across CityDeskNYC.
The account, which is run by an artificial intelligence bot, spits out more than 1,000 posts a day, responding to mentions of the Democratic nominee for mayor. The posts disparage Mamdani and his proposed policies while praising some of his political opponents.
But the person behind the bot isn’t in New York City, or even in the United States. He lives in Ottawa.
Saihajpreet Singh is a 24-year-old software engineer who graduated from Carleton University two years ago and CityDeskNYC is just one of his AI bots looking to reshape political public relations.
Last year, Singh, who has been coding since he was seven years old, built an AI bot called DOGEai that posts around 2,000 times a day on X, with a right-wing MAGA flair and an output no human could match. DOGEai, which has amassed more than 127,000 followers, has criticized Democrats and applauded Donald Trump and his supporters, attracting retweets by the American president and his former ally Elon Musk.
For Singh, CityDeskNYC is a proof of concept AI bot that he hopes to monetize by eventually selling it to Mamdani’s political opponents.
“Many people hate me,” Singh told the Ottawa Citizen.
Singh’s accounts are part of an army of AI bots that have created an information ecosystem in support of Trump and the Republican Party on X. In the lead-up to last year’s presidential election, researchers at Clemson University identified a network of more than 680 AI-generated bot accounts on X that were pushing Trump’s agenda.
Singh, who moved to Ottawa in 2019 from Minnesota, claims he is not a propagandist, but a “technologist” who wants to show how AI can be leveraged for public relations. He said he would be open to working for campaigns across the political spectrum.
He added that he “does not discriminate” and that “the technology can help anyone.” But his known accounts have targeted progressive politicians and sought to aid conservative ones so far.
AI bot master as a side hustle
Singh first launched the AI behind DOGEai as a way to scrutinize legislation that was working its way through Congress during the latter half of then-president Joe Biden’s term in office, when the Democrats controlled the Senate and Republicans held the House.
Singh, whose family and friends live in the United States, said he originally asked the AI to break down a 1,500-page spending bill introduced in 2024. He posed simple questions about how the bill would spend money and impact citizens.
But Singh and the friends who worked with him on the project thought the data they got back was “boring” and dry.
“So, we were like, what if we make this humorous and have things have a particular stance on particular topics, right?” Singh said.
That’s when DOGEai was born on X. Singh also later created a Substack newsletter with posts every few days of AI-generated political cartoons.
Saihajpreet Singhhas launched multiple AI bots looking to support conservative politicians in the U.S.
Saihajpreet Singh has launched multiple AI bots looking to support conservative politicians in the U.S.
The response was explosive, Singh said. The posts on DOGEai soon reached millions of impressions each day with help from Musk and Trump.
“Even the sitting president retweeted one of the posts from DOGEai, so the scale is pretty big,” he said. “I was just shocked when I saw that happen.”
Singh said that the AI bots are his side projects and he currently works as the head of growth and product engineering at a software company called the Guild. He is also a growth engineer for Anyscale, an AI company.
Running the bots is not cheap at around $9,000 to $10,000 in operational costs a month, according to Singh.
He said he has received racist comments and death threats “every couple days” for creating DOGEai. But it’s not stopping Singh, who is “actively exploring” other social media sites such as TikTok, Instagram and Threads.
The future of bots in political public relations
Singh said that his bots rely heavily on social media, where many voters get their information.
Still, he does not think such AI bots should be used exclusively for political campaigns, even though both of his projects revolve around American politics.
“It’s a tool for public relations teams. It can help you scale your operations like never before, right?” Singh said.
“With this kind of thing, (you) can get influences that you want, you can send your message to the world.”
Singh said he has received interest from political campaigns and public relations firms about his bots.
“There’s interest from every part of the world on this type of thing,” Singh said. “You can see the scale of this thing, how good it can get, as long as we have good guard rails.”
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Saihajpreet Singh's bots are waging an online battle against progressive politicians in the U.S.
Author of the article:Matteo Cimellaro
Published Aug 06, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 4 minute read
Former Carleton University student Saihajpreet Singh is a 24-year-old software engineer who has designed a MAGA bot on X.
Former Carleton University student Saihajpreet Singh is a 24-year-old software engineer who has designed a MAGA bot on X.
If you’ve been on the social media site X recently to wade into the debate over the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, you may have come across CityDeskNYC.
The account, which is run by an artificial intelligence bot, spits out more than 1,000 posts a day, responding to mentions of the Democratic nominee for mayor. The posts disparage Mamdani and his proposed policies while praising some of his political opponents.
But the person behind the bot isn’t in New York City, or even in the United States. He lives in Ottawa.
Saihajpreet Singh is a 24-year-old software engineer who graduated from Carleton University two years ago and CityDeskNYC is just one of his AI bots looking to reshape political public relations.
Last year, Singh, who has been coding since he was seven years old, built an AI bot called DOGEai that posts around 2,000 times a day on X, with a right-wing MAGA flair and an output no human could match. DOGEai, which has amassed more than 127,000 followers, has criticized Democrats and applauded Donald Trump and his supporters, attracting retweets by the American president and his former ally Elon Musk.
For Singh, CityDeskNYC is a proof of concept AI bot that he hopes to monetize by eventually selling it to Mamdani’s political opponents.
“Many people hate me,” Singh told the Ottawa Citizen.
Singh’s accounts are part of an army of AI bots that have created an information ecosystem in support of Trump and the Republican Party on X. In the lead-up to last year’s presidential election, researchers at Clemson University identified a network of more than 680 AI-generated bot accounts on X that were pushing Trump’s agenda.
Singh, who moved to Ottawa in 2019 from Minnesota, claims he is not a propagandist, but a “technologist” who wants to show how AI can be leveraged for public relations. He said he would be open to working for campaigns across the political spectrum.
He added that he “does not discriminate” and that “the technology can help anyone.” But his known accounts have targeted progressive politicians and sought to aid conservative ones so far.
AI bot master as a side hustle
Singh first launched the AI behind DOGEai as a way to scrutinize legislation that was working its way through Congress during the latter half of then-president Joe Biden’s term in office, when the Democrats controlled the Senate and Republicans held the House.
Singh, whose family and friends live in the United States, said he originally asked the AI to break down a 1,500-page spending bill introduced in 2024. He posed simple questions about how the bill would spend money and impact citizens.
But Singh and the friends who worked with him on the project thought the data they got back was “boring” and dry.
“So, we were like, what if we make this humorous and have things have a particular stance on particular topics, right?” Singh said.
That’s when DOGEai was born on X. Singh also later created a Substack newsletter with posts every few days of AI-generated political cartoons.
Saihajpreet Singhhas launched multiple AI bots looking to support conservative politicians in the U.S.
Saihajpreet Singh has launched multiple AI bots looking to support conservative politicians in the U.S.
The response was explosive, Singh said. The posts on DOGEai soon reached millions of impressions each day with help from Musk and Trump.
“Even the sitting president retweeted one of the posts from DOGEai, so the scale is pretty big,” he said. “I was just shocked when I saw that happen.”
Singh said that the AI bots are his side projects and he currently works as the head of growth and product engineering at a software company called the Guild. He is also a growth engineer for Anyscale, an AI company.
Running the bots is not cheap at around $9,000 to $10,000 in operational costs a month, according to Singh.
He said he has received racist comments and death threats “every couple days” for creating DOGEai. But it’s not stopping Singh, who is “actively exploring” other social media sites such as TikTok, Instagram and Threads.
The future of bots in political public relations
Singh said that his bots rely heavily on social media, where many voters get their information.
Still, he does not think such AI bots should be used exclusively for political campaigns, even though both of his projects revolve around American politics.
“It’s a tool for public relations teams. It can help you scale your operations like never before, right?” Singh said.
“With this kind of thing, (you) can get influences that you want, you can send your message to the world.”
Singh said he has received interest from political campaigns and public relations firms about his bots.
“There’s interest from every part of the world on this type of thing,” Singh said. “You can see the scale of this thing, how good it can get, as long as we have good guard rails.”
Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot
The bots were created to flood X with pro-MAGA messages, attracting attention from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Pam Bondi fires man accused of throwing sandwich at federal agent during Trump DC intervention
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Michael Kunzelman And Alanna Durkin Richer
Published Aug 14, 2025 • Last updated 17 hours ago • 2 minute read
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social media post Thursday.
A video of Sean Charles Dunn berating a group of federal agents late Sunday went viral online. Dunn was arrested on an assault charge after he threw a “sub-style” sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent, a court filing said.
Dunn, 37, of Washington, was an international affairs specialist in the Justice Department’s criminal division, according to a department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ,” Bondi wrote. “You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement.”
A multiagency flood of uniformed federal law enforcement officers had fanned out across the city over the weekend after the White House had announced stepped-up measures to combat crime. That was before President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he was taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard.
The Justice Department still employs a former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol and cheering on rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege, repeatedly yelling “Kill ‘em!” as they attacked police. The former FBI supervisory agent, Jared Lane Wise, is serving as a counsellor to Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin Jr., who was a leading figure in Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election.
Around 11 p.m. on Sunday, Dunn approached a group of CBP agents, pointed a finger in an agent’s face and swore at him, calling him a “fascist,” a police affidavit says. An observer’s video captured Dunn throwing a sandwich at the agent’s chest, the affidavit says.
“Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Dunn shouted, according to police.
Dunn tried to run away but was apprehended, police said.
An attorney for Dunn didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Dunn’s charge.
The incident coincided with Trump’s push to flood the city with National Guard troops and federal officers. Trump claims crime in the city has reached emergency levels, but city leaders point to statistics showing violent crime at a 30-year low.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Michael Kunzelman And Alanna Durkin Richer
Published Aug 14, 2025 • Last updated 17 hours ago • 2 minute read
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social media post Thursday.
A video of Sean Charles Dunn berating a group of federal agents late Sunday went viral online. Dunn was arrested on an assault charge after he threw a “sub-style” sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent, a court filing said.
Dunn, 37, of Washington, was an international affairs specialist in the Justice Department’s criminal division, according to a department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ,” Bondi wrote. “You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement.”
A multiagency flood of uniformed federal law enforcement officers had fanned out across the city over the weekend after the White House had announced stepped-up measures to combat crime. That was before President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he was taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard.
The Justice Department still employs a former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol and cheering on rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege, repeatedly yelling “Kill ‘em!” as they attacked police. The former FBI supervisory agent, Jared Lane Wise, is serving as a counsellor to Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin Jr., who was a leading figure in Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election.
Around 11 p.m. on Sunday, Dunn approached a group of CBP agents, pointed a finger in an agent’s face and swore at him, calling him a “fascist,” a police affidavit says. An observer’s video captured Dunn throwing a sandwich at the agent’s chest, the affidavit says.
“Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Dunn shouted, according to police.
Dunn tried to run away but was apprehended, police said.
An attorney for Dunn didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Dunn’s charge.
The incident coincided with Trump’s push to flood the city with National Guard troops and federal officers. Trump claims crime in the city has reached emergency levels, but city leaders point to statistics showing violent crime at a 30-year low.
Pam Bondi fires man accused of throwing sandwich at federal agent during Trump DC intervention
A video of Sean Charles Dunn berating a group of federal agents late Sunday went viral online.
Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Nicholas Riccardi
Published Aug 18, 2025 • 3 minute read
DENVER — The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.
The settlement comes after Fox News Channel paid $787.5 million to settle a similar lawsuit in 2023 and Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40 million to settle a libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, which also was a target of pro-Trump conspiracy theories on the network.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis had ruled earlier that Newsmax did indeed defame Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems by airing false information about the company and its equipment. But Davis left it to a jury to eventually decide whether that was done with malice, and, if so, how much Dominion deserved from Newsmax in damages. Newsmax and Dominion reached the settlement before the trial could take place.
The settlement was disclosed by Newsmax in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It said the deal was reached Friday.
“Newsmax believed it was critically important for the American people to hear both sides of the election disputes that arose in 2020,” the company said in a statement. “We stand by our coverage as fair, balanced, and conducted within professional standards of journalism.”
A spokesperson for Dominion said the company was pleased to have settled the lawsuit.
The disclosure of the settlement came as Trump, who lost his 2020 reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden, vowed in a social media post Monday to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines such as those supplied by Dominion and other companies. It was unclear how the Republican president could achieve that.
The same judge also handled the Dominion-Fox News case and made a similar ruling that the network repeated numerous lies by Trump’s allies about his 2020 loss despite internal communications showing Fox officials knew the claims were bogus. At the time, Davis found it was “CRYSTAL clear” that none of the allegations was true.
Internal correspondence from Newsmax officials likewise shows they knew the claims were baseless.
“How long are we going to play along with election fraud?” Newsmax host Bob Sellers said two days after the 2020 election was called for Biden, according to internal documents revealed as part of the case.
Newsmax took pride that it was not calling the election for Biden and, the internal documents show, saw a business opportunity in catering to viewers who believed Trump won. Private communications that surfaced as part of Dominion’s earlier defamation case against Fox News also revealed how the network’s business interests intersected with decisions it made related to coverage of Trump’s 2020 election claims.
At Newsmax, employees repeatedly warned against false allegations from pro-Trump guests such as attorney Sidney Powell, according to documents in the lawsuit. In one text, even Newsmax owner Chris Ruddy, a Trump ally, said he found it “scary” that Trump was meeting with Powell.
Dominion was at the heart of many of the wild claims aired by guests on Newsmax and elsewhere, who promoted a conspiracy theory involving deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to rig the machines for Biden. The network retracted some of the more bombastic allegations in December 2020.
Though Trump has insisted his fraud claims are real, there’s no evidence they were, and the lawsuits in the Fox and Newsmax cases show how some of the president’s biggest supporters knew they were false at the time. Trump’s then-attorney general, William Barr, said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits alleging fraud, some before Trump-appointed judges. Numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results, including some run by Republicans, turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error and affirmed Biden’s win.
After returning to office, Trump pardoned those who tried to halt the transfer of power during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and directed his Department of Justice to investigate Chris Krebs, a former Trump cybersecurity appointee who had vouched for the security and accuracy of the 2020 election.
As an initial trial date approached in the Dominion case earlier this year, Trump issued an executive order attacking the law firm that litigated it and the Fox case, Susman Godfrey. The order, part of a series targeting law firms Trump has tussled with, cited Susman Godfrey’s work on elections and said the government would not do business with any of its clients or permit any of its staff in federal buildings.
A federal judge put that action on hold, saying the framers would view it as “a shocking abuse of power. “
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Nicholas Riccardi
Published Aug 18, 2025 • 3 minute read
DENVER — The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.
The settlement comes after Fox News Channel paid $787.5 million to settle a similar lawsuit in 2023 and Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40 million to settle a libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, which also was a target of pro-Trump conspiracy theories on the network.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis had ruled earlier that Newsmax did indeed defame Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems by airing false information about the company and its equipment. But Davis left it to a jury to eventually decide whether that was done with malice, and, if so, how much Dominion deserved from Newsmax in damages. Newsmax and Dominion reached the settlement before the trial could take place.
The settlement was disclosed by Newsmax in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It said the deal was reached Friday.
“Newsmax believed it was critically important for the American people to hear both sides of the election disputes that arose in 2020,” the company said in a statement. “We stand by our coverage as fair, balanced, and conducted within professional standards of journalism.”
A spokesperson for Dominion said the company was pleased to have settled the lawsuit.
The disclosure of the settlement came as Trump, who lost his 2020 reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden, vowed in a social media post Monday to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines such as those supplied by Dominion and other companies. It was unclear how the Republican president could achieve that.
The same judge also handled the Dominion-Fox News case and made a similar ruling that the network repeated numerous lies by Trump’s allies about his 2020 loss despite internal communications showing Fox officials knew the claims were bogus. At the time, Davis found it was “CRYSTAL clear” that none of the allegations was true.
Internal correspondence from Newsmax officials likewise shows they knew the claims were baseless.
“How long are we going to play along with election fraud?” Newsmax host Bob Sellers said two days after the 2020 election was called for Biden, according to internal documents revealed as part of the case.
Newsmax took pride that it was not calling the election for Biden and, the internal documents show, saw a business opportunity in catering to viewers who believed Trump won. Private communications that surfaced as part of Dominion’s earlier defamation case against Fox News also revealed how the network’s business interests intersected with decisions it made related to coverage of Trump’s 2020 election claims.
At Newsmax, employees repeatedly warned against false allegations from pro-Trump guests such as attorney Sidney Powell, according to documents in the lawsuit. In one text, even Newsmax owner Chris Ruddy, a Trump ally, said he found it “scary” that Trump was meeting with Powell.
Dominion was at the heart of many of the wild claims aired by guests on Newsmax and elsewhere, who promoted a conspiracy theory involving deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to rig the machines for Biden. The network retracted some of the more bombastic allegations in December 2020.
Though Trump has insisted his fraud claims are real, there’s no evidence they were, and the lawsuits in the Fox and Newsmax cases show how some of the president’s biggest supporters knew they were false at the time. Trump’s then-attorney general, William Barr, said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits alleging fraud, some before Trump-appointed judges. Numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results, including some run by Republicans, turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error and affirmed Biden’s win.
After returning to office, Trump pardoned those who tried to halt the transfer of power during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and directed his Department of Justice to investigate Chris Krebs, a former Trump cybersecurity appointee who had vouched for the security and accuracy of the 2020 election.
As an initial trial date approached in the Dominion case earlier this year, Trump issued an executive order attacking the law firm that litigated it and the Fox case, Susman Godfrey. The order, part of a series targeting law firms Trump has tussled with, cited Susman Godfrey’s work on elections and said the government would not do business with any of its clients or permit any of its staff in federal buildings.
A federal judge put that action on hold, saying the framers would view it as “a shocking abuse of power. “
Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company over bogus 2020 election claims.