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[Thread] 1/ As I said yesterday, today is another thread on what I believe to be another #Saudi-based bot network. I've identified approximately 3,500 bot accounts. These are separate from the 5000 strong bot network I identified yesterday. I believe the purpose is different
2/ First, @Buenen highlighted some suspicious activity on Twitter. Namely, accounts posting on the hashtag "something that you like about Saudi". Each of the accounts bizarrely had a few (4) letters of gibberish in English and were only posting the hashtag.
@Buenen 3/ What was interesting is that @Buenen joked that the purpose of this was to hide the hashtag "هجوم_حديقة_الملز" - which translates as "attack in Malaz". The hashtag refers to yesterday's stabbing of three performers by a man in Riyadh's al-Malaz district - a sensitive topic.
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