Thread by @conspirator0

A few minutes after the incident shown in this video (which doesn't show @Acosta laying hands on anyone, contrary to @PressSec's claims), tweets containing anti-Acosta hashtags such #AcostaAccosts and #AcostaAssaults started appearing. Let's take a look.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

https://twitter.com/AltUSPressSec/status/1060380457567694848

We downloaded tweets containing #AcostaAccosts, #AcostaAssaults, #AcostaAccostsWomen, and #AcostaHitsWomen, yielding 1580 tweets from 990 accounts. How'd this get started?

This chart shows the first 20 accounts to use one of four anti-Acosta hashtags (#AcostaAccosts/#AcostaAssaults/#AcostaAccostsWomen/#AcostaHitsWomen). The first few accounts generated negligible volume.

In what appears to be an effort to jump-start activity on the hashtags, @yellowredsparks spammed the #AcostaAccostsWomen hashtag in reply to several dozen accounts (mostly in Trump's replies).

We've seen this reply spam technique used before, in the early days of #QAnon/#FollowTheWhiteRabbit. Speaking of QAnon. . .

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/931985050987581442

Retweet network for the anti-Acosta hashtags. The largest node (@WeAreOneQ) is a promoter of QAnon material. The high degree of interconnection in the cluster in the upper left indicates that each account is retweeting the anti-Acosta tweets from a bunch of the others.

Finally, here are the hashtags most frequently used by the accounts involved. #QAnon and #WWG1WGA feature prominently - indeed, this particular hashtag campaign seems to be largely a production of the #QAnon crowd.

Oops - type in this tweet. Should be @WeAreOne_Q.

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1060402143906095104

*type = typo