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Thread 1/ Small update. On the hashtags 'I stand with Putin' and 'I stand with Russia', a new bot network has joined the fray. I have marked the cluster below. There are approx 100 bots in this cluster #UkraineRussianWar #disinformation 
2/ All the accounts tweet from Twitter Web App, and use appropriated accounts (sock puppets). Their modus operandi is to retweet a few central accounts that are, appropriately, services that offer fake followers, fake retweets etc #UkraineRussianWar
3/ The sockpuppets were real people whose accounts were hacked/sold. They come from everywhere. @VickiCotters for example, a British woman, who is now tweeting in Arabic. Her old tweets are still visible (there are photos but I won't include them). #UkraineUnderAttack
