Roger Stone relied on deception to make unpopular views appear more popular than they were. “Facebook removes fake accounts posing as Floridians linked to Roger Stone” 7/8/20 1/ thedenverchannel.com/news/national/…
In July 2020, “Facebook…removed dozens of fake accounts… ‘linked to Roger Stone & his associates’ … ‘The people behind this activity used fake accounts…to pose as residents of Florida, [and] post & comment on their own content to make it appear more popular than it is…’” 2/
“Mueller investigators said Roger Stone orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts in political influence scheme” - 8/25/20 3/ cnn.com/2020/04/28/pol…
Charlie Kirk follows the same playbook, relying on deception to make fringe views appear popular. Do MAGAs like to be deceived or do they not know this? 4/ theguardian.com/technology/202…
5/ Same concept. “Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots” technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/100…
6/ “Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says … Twitter has taken action to stop a spam operation that pushed messages from fake accounts about Black people abandoning the Democratic Party.” 8/27/20 nbcnews.com/tech/security/…
7/ “The fake accounts were purported to be run by Black people whose viral tweets received tens of thousands of shares in the past month.”
8/ “Twitter suspends fake accounts pretending to be Black Trump supporters” - 10/14/20 cnn.com/2020/10/14/tec…
9/ Jack Posobiec relies on deliberately deceptive tactics too.
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