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Do you want to have your fundraiser tweeted to 4 million+ donors on large Twitter pages? Given that @MonsterFundrise and its eight recently-created clones have just over 2000 followers between them, we're skeptical they can pull it off, but we took a look.
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These nine accounts (@MonsterFundrise, @FundingMore, @FundingTweet, @FundingAdept_, @Fd_Collector, @CharityGofundme, @Funding_Skilled, @FundingCrowed, and @F_Experienced) all do the same two things: link GoFundMes and promote a website called monsterfundrise(dot)com.
We checked out monsterfundrise(dot)com via Tor (always exercise caution when visiting potentially shady websites), which claims to promote your GoFundMe to 1 million followers via "5 Large Twitter Pages". Needless to say, we didn't whip out our "creidt cards" (sic).
The wildfires presently burning in the Western USA have given rise to various conspiracy theories claiming that the conflagrations are an organized campaign of arson conducted by antifa, with a side of climate change denialism.
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We downloaded recent tweets containing "arson", "arsonist", or "arsonists", yielding 267136 tweets from 169105 accounts. The traffic largely doesn't look automated, but the accounts involved are disproportionately 2020 creations.
Retweet network for recent tweets containing arson/arsonist/arsonists. The largest cluster consists of right-wing accounts, most of which are putting forth the proposition that the wildfires are an act of political violence by antifa.
So the #Antifa boogeyman is now being blamed 4 wild fires across the country. Apparently George Soros is sending out Antifa to start forest fires. Of course this is completely not true & has been debunked by law enforcement & local officials. Here are two recent #disinfo examples
Quick shout out to @ContextFall & @dragnetizen for sending these examples. On Facebook its even worse & an absolute sea of dumb. Also its good to know that the fake @ScarsdaleAntifa account, inciting violence & falsely claiming #AntifaFires is responsible is now suspended
#Antifa is the top trending hashtag in Colorado Springs at it was due to this tweet from a local pastor. Its interesting because it appears to be boosted by one of the #Mighty200 accounts @LeahR77. This is also an account that I believe President Trump has retweeted on occasion.
Laura Loomer is running for Congress. Although Loomer's own Twitter account is banned, viral-ish tweets promoting her website from @JulieReichwein1 are frequently racking up far more retweets than likes, a potential sign of amplification via retweet rooms.
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We downloaded the most recent 9 days worth of tweets linking lauraloomerforcongress(dot)com, yielding 35458 tweets from 13933 accounts, mostly retweets of @JulieReichwein1. Although very little of the traffic looks automated, it also doesn't exactly look uncoordinated. . .
232 of the accounts retweeting tweets linking to Loomer's campaign website look like potential #MAGA retweet room members, based on the frequent presence of tweets with substantially more retweets than likes on their timelines (both their own tweets and tweets they retweeted).
It's a Tuesday, and a bunch of tweets pushing a poorly-explained @gatewaypundit conspiracy theory about Anthony Fauci, the price of remdesivir, and George Soros have received far more retweets than likes, a fingerprint of the #Mighty200+ #MAGA retweet rooms.
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We downloaded tweets containing both "Fauci" and "remdesivir", yielding 7585 tweets from 6856 accounts. Very little of the traffic looks automated, which didn't really surprise us as we suspect the artificial amplification is coming from humans in DM rooms rather than bots.
Can we estimate how much of the Fauci/remdesivir traffic is from accounts in these rooms? We've previously observed that we can identify likely room members based on the presence of large numbers of tweets with more retweets than likes on their timelines.
One account we've seen promoted in #Mighty200+ #MAGA retweet rooms is @PatriotsInTune, linked to a YouTube channel featuring content ranging from readings of #QAnon tweets to interviews with GOP congressional candidates with fake Twitter followers. #Lobsterfest
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We've previously noted that the tweets amplified by these #MAGA DM rooms often garner more retweets than likes, and so it is with many of @PatriotsInTune's tweets. We took a look at the 220 accounts that RT'd 10 such @PatriotsInTune tweets since June 1st.
Unsurprisingly, almost all of these 220 accounts (along with @PatriotsInTune itself) have a large number of tweets and retweets that have accumulated substantially more retweets than likes, indicating that they are likely being boosted by/participating in #MAGA retweet rooms.
We've observed that tweets amplified via #MAGA retweet rooms tend to get far more retweets than likes, and this propagandalicious @AFunnyValentine tweet looks like an example. We explored its network in search of other likely room participants. #Lobsterfest
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First, here's a visual comparison between a control group of Twitter accounts and a set of accounts that we know were in a #Mighty200+ retweet room fairly recently. The retweet room accounts all have many tweets with more retweets than likes, while the control accounts do not.
Unsurprisingly, @AFunnyValentine fits the pattern, with hundreds of recent tweets/retweets with more retweets than likes. To find additional accounts in @AFunnyValentine's network, we checked the other accounts that retweeted at least 15 of these tweets for the same anomaly.
We started looking at the followers of the GOP House/Senate candidates being amplified by #Mighty200+ retweet rooms, and lo and behold #NV04 candidate @LisaSongSutton has thousands of batch-created followers.
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The batch-created accounts following @LisaSongSutton are part of a larger network consisting of (at least) 39430 dormant accounts created in batches in late 2014 and early 2015. All have similar numbers of tweets/likes/followers/followees and tweeted via Twitter Web Client.
This botnet reuses profile pics on multiple accounts, featuring a total of 3086 unique profile pics across 39430 accounts. The most common non-default image is used on 97 accounts.
How is GOP congressional candidate @Barge4Congress (GA-14) getting hundreds of retweets with only 152 followers, and why do his tweets garner more retweets than likes? #TuesdayThoughts #Lobsterfest
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Also, why is 96% of the amplification of a Georgia congressional candidate's tweets coming from accounts claiming a location other than Georgia? (Accounts with empty or fictional locations excluded.)
One possibility, and we think it's likely: #MAGA retweet DM rooms. In an interesting coincidence, 269 of 421 accounts (63.9%) that retweeted @Barge4Congress are mutual followers with one or both of the accounts recruiting members for #Mighty200+ retweet rooms.
Yikes this Tara Reade stuff is collapsing under the sheer weight of the ridiculousness. This is some impressive Jacob Wohl type stuff. I didn't realize Ms #TaraReade was into writing romance novels. #osint #metoo usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
Its interesting that in 2017 Ms #TaraReade (or Mccabe as she used to like to be called) seemed quite fond of Joe Biden. Remind me again when her newly concocted "rape" story occurred again? #osint #metoo cc @chrislhayes
Back in late August of this yr the account @ArizonaKayte was suspended by Twitter. I have no idea why ... however this account was of note given it was one of the top most influential accounts within the Domestic pro-MAGA troll group called the #Mighty200 or also called #the200
It was found that the account @ArizonaKayte from #the200 was in the top 6 most retweeted by the primary dataset of alt-right accounts (top 57393 users) h/t @r0zetta from F-secure #infosec #disinfo #magatrolls #osint
The account @ArizonaKayte was commonly found in large Trump Train follow back tweets and still appears even months after its suspension. See the screenshot on the right from 2 days ago #infosec #disinfo #magatrolls #osint
