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Quick thread on #NancyPelosiFakeNews, because I've been having a few questions on it.

BLUF: critics of the Iranian regime launched it, President Trump boosted it.

Some pushing by hyperactive accounts, but it doesn't look massively manipulated so far.
This thread by @conspirator0 gives a good rundown: hashtag starts in Iranian circles, content in Persian and English. Launch time was consistent with a UK location (around 0930 GMT).

The hashtag started here, as a response to @RNCResearch's take on a clip from a Pelosi interview.

The Persian post came first, English explanation over an hour later.

Note the difference in retweets.
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Donald Trump's day so far:

- Retweets image of mutilated corpse
- Retweets fake hashtag #NancyPelosiFakeNews eight times
- Misspells "imminent"
- Misspells "Bernie Sanders"
- Misspells "Pocahontas"
- This guy is falling to pieces
- Trump is going to prison
- It's still only 3pm
Donald Trump is even more off his rocker than usual today palmerreport.com/analysis/more-…
Lev Parnas just took his big swing at Donald Trump palmerreport.com/analysis/lev-p…
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#NancyPelosiFakeNews is trending this morning. We started looking at it a bit before 6:00 AM PST, at which point there were 13129 tweets from 4875 accounts. We've been seeing rumors about bots, but the traffic mostly doesn't look automated.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
@ZellaQuixote How did the #NancyPelosiFakeNews trend get started? The early accounts (including @NarimanGharib, who sent the first tweet) appear to be Iranian; tweets are in both Farsi and English. Posting the first tweet in the middle of the night US time likely helped the hashtag to trend.
@ZellaQuixote @NarimanGharib The situation evolved while we were studying the hashtag. Between 6:09 and 6:15 AM PST, Trump retweeted eight #NancyPelosiFakeNews tweets, including an English tweet from @NarimanGharib, the originator of the hashtag. Unsurprisingly, this kicked the volume into high gear.
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