1) So right now, there’s a lot of X accounts in the replies to the tweet on the left trying to incite and encourage Homeland Security to arrest Democrat House members. A lot have the characteristics of Russian trolls posing as Americans. So I researched one of them. Let’s begin⬇️
2) It’s always syntax that gives them away. They have trouble using plurals and rarely use periods or anything else to end a sentence, such as question marks. This has to do with their cut and paste from Russian into English. Let’s continue⬇️
3) Again, the inability to use plurals and no period to end the sentence. Let’s continue⬇️
4) This whole tweet is Russian that didn’t translate well into English. Hence the strange syntax. That’s why it’s so easy to detect. Russian trolls can’t help doing this and it gives them away every time. Notice confusion with plurals, and no period ending the sentence. And⬇️
5) It makes mistakes in spacing, uses commas in some places but uses them incorrectly. This is a problem with the troll going from Russian to English. Again, no period despite it having used punctuation marks (commas) in the same sentence. Let’s continue⬇️
6) This is some kind of weird Russian saying or colloquialism that doesn’t really translate into English. Russians have a lot of strange sayings like this that don’t translate into English with intelligible meanings. Only Russians understand them. Let’s continue⬇️
7) Again, Russian syntax. This is a cut and paste from Russian into English. Let’s continue⬇️
8) Democrats are “buying fighting”? It was probably trying to say taking bribes or something like that. But again, what you see is the strange syntax that Russian trolls can’t avoid because they’re not skilled English speakers. Finally⬇️
9) It’s a recent account. Its mission is to create political instability and unrest, as well as damage social cohesion. Its Facebook page is most likely full of fake photos it culled from the internet to build its persona and identity. And there’s lots of these Russian accounts.
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