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Let's take a look at Twitter traffic linking to gotnews(dot)com, the now-defunct fake news site run by alt-right internet personality Chuck Johnson. (Johnson was banned from Twitter in early 2015, so his own tweets are missing). #AltWankers

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We downloaded tweets linking to gotnews(dot)com, and merged in the tweets linking the site from Twitter-provided dataset of Internet Research Agency tweets from banned accounts, resulting in 78198 original tweets (363790 including retweets).
What did the content of gotnews(dot)com look like? Here are the titles of the 20 most frequently retweeted gotnews articles. It's a mixture of dubiously-framed fact, fiction, and innuendo, mostly.
Gotnews(dot)com got some interesting attention. This table shows the 20 users whose tweets linking the site earned the most retweets. Prominent right-wing personalities such as @seanhannity and @AnnCoulter are on the list, as is Internet Research Agency troll @TEN_GOP.
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