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Why does Venezuelan government account @Mippcivzla get so many more retweets than likes on its tweets? #AstroturfFriday

cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: @Mippcivzla's tweets (and those of a few other large Venezuelan accounts) are being retweeted by a network of 2454 accounts, all allegedly using the Twitter Android app. These accounts post almost no original content (99.6% percent of their tweets are retweets).
These accounts have all retweeted hundreds of tweets or more, but have liked few or none. The content they boost reflects this - 98.6% of the tweets they retweeted got more retweets than likes. (Based on a set of 5M random tweets, only ~0.8% of tweets get more RTs than likes.)
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