Thread by @conspirator0

#PelosiMustGo trended for several hours yesterday (September 1st, 2020). We downloaded recent tweets containing the hashtag as of ~8 PM PDT, yielding 44274 tweets from 26160 accounts. Very little of the traffic looks automated.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

Yesterday's #PelosiMustGo trend appears to be inspired by surveillance video released by Fox News of Nancy Pelosi at a hair salon. This is, however, not the first time this hashtag has gotten traction.

#PelosiMustGo first achieved noticeable volume Feb 4 2020, thanks to #MAGA accounts outraged at Pelosi's destruction of her copy of Trump's SOTU speech. The hashtag first trended in July, due to a mix of #MAGA accounts and supporters of Pelosi's Dem challenger, @ShahidForChange.

Yesterday's #PelosiMustGo trend consists primarily of #MAGA accounts hyping the hair salon story, with @ShahidForChange piggybacking on the trend. The dense central cluster contains accounts we know or suspect to be participating in or amplified by #MAGA retweet DM rooms.

We found a total of 270 #MAGA accounts tweeting #PelosiMustGo that we believe to be retweet room participants based on the majority of their tweets/retweets garnering more retweets than likes. (We've confirmed empirically that some are part of #TheMighty200 network.) #Lobsterfest

(previous threads on #TheMighty200 retweet rooms, including the background on how we determined that the accounts participating in such rooms tend to have timelines full of tweets/retweets with substantially more retweets than likes)

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