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In light of yesterday's indictments and Twitter's disclosure last week, we are monitoring a still-active network of 800 accounts commenting on US politics that we believe are linked to Russia. We setup a dashboard so you can track their activity with us: disinfo2018.com
These 800 Russia-linked accounts posted over 87,000 tweets on Wednesday. That's over 100 tweets per account on a single day.
The Russia-linked accounts we're monitoring are opportunistically undermining US credibility, capitalizing on stories that make us look divided or weak. The two stories they've most heavily influenced are the Kavanaugh nomination and Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
The accounts aren't simply pushing a Russian point of view. In fact, they routinely point to US fringe and conspiracy sites to amplify and legitimize the most extreme and divisive content.
For example this network has amplified NaturalNews[.com] nearly 2,000 times in the past 7 days. NaturalNews previously tried to discredit Dr. Christine Blasey Ford by accusing her of operating "mass 'hypnotic inductions' of psychiatric subjects as part of mind control research"
Current NaturalNews headlines accuse @BuzzFeed of being in the Deep State, literal mass hypnosis of Democrats, and advice for avoiding metal fragments in Wheaties breakfast cereal.
@BuzzFeed Other popular domains not surprisingly include Russian state propaganda outlets like Sputnik and RT, followed by ZeroHedge, a website ostensibly about stock tips that currently features a story about Putin "laying down the law."
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