Whilst perusing recent "false flag"/#FalseFlag tweets for signs of automation, we came across a curious group of retweet bots. These accounts are not primarily focused on false flag content, and do not commit to a single political perspective. Let's dig in.
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The accounts in question fit the following pattern: handle consists of a first/last name combination followed by two digits, all tweets are posted with an app with a similar name to the account, and they tweet all hours of the day but with frequent 2-4 hour gaps.
We found three such accounts in a dataset of recent "false flag"/#FalseFlag tweets, and went looking through the tweets they retweeted for other accounts fitting the pattern. We identified 121 - there are likely more that could be found via further exploration.
Much of the profile information is recycled across accounts - each of the biographies shown in this table is used by multiple bots.
Here are the 20 accounts most frequently retweeted by the bots in question. The top account (@LuxuryGirlRev) appears to be focused on selling jewelry, raising the possibility that the primary purpose of this network is commercial rather than political spam.
