In conjunction with @SlickRockWeb, now let’s take a look at #WalkAway from a different perspective. Who’s the man behind the curtain, and who’s backing him? His name is Brandon Straka, know here as @UsMinority. Let’s get to know him a bit. #infosec #osint #psyops
Before #WalkAway took off (with surprising rapidity), Straka was a performance artist and stylist in New York. His most recent work appears to have been this show, showing his evolution away from #TheResistance. Here’s a link to the GoFundMe gofundme.com/resist-a-rock-…
His first announcement of the #WalkAway campaign was on May 26th. However, shortly after the dates of his show, on a Facebook post dated 10/27/17, we see the following exchange after a post about @TheEllenShow, which appears to be the first public use of the “walk away” idea. 
So did that comment spark the idea for a movement? Maybe. After an attempt to start a club for homosexual conservatives, he comes out with the slick introduction video of #WalkAway, approx 7 months to the day after this Facebook exchange.
Here he is appearing on @RT_com, the Russian news agency widely known as a Kremlin mouthpiece. The account in the screenshot, @CarolN33, we have analyzed as being “Hamilton-like”, but do not have sufficient data to say they are definitely a #Hamilton68 acct.
As @SlickRockWeb noted, the first use of the hashtag by a Hamilton bot appears to be from @KeepTexasRed7 on June 8th. Let’s look at some numbers for this #IndependanceDay, and where those number are coming from. In a one minute time frame, the hashtag was used at least 100 times.
Look at those reach and impression numbers, and retweets. Below is a breakdown of retweets and original content percentages, and a hashtag and word cloud to show the terms being used most frequently by those pushing the #WalkAway concept:
Now many will probably jump on here to say that this is a strictly American movement not receiving any foreign amplification. Take a look:
While the UK and Australia may have enough American ex-pats to account for their appearance, that big ole splash of green across #Russia is pretty interesting. Not ENTIRELY home grown, hmm?
Next we’ll be digging into the movements supporters, bank rollers, and affiliations, and identifying the main influencers and drivers behind it. Thanks as always to @SlickRockWeb for the help. #infosec #botnet #CyberSecurity
I wish you all well on our #IndependanceDay, and implore all Americans to research everything: #WalkAwayFromMisinformation Happy Fourth of July.
Here is the start of @SlickRockWeb’s thread on this, all of which is definitely worth the read:
