Let's take a brief look at the Internet Research Agency's tweets about the Mueller investigation. The dataset released by Twitter includes 6010 tweets from 206 accounts containing the word "Mueller" following his appointment as special counsel.
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What does the earliest traffic look like? The first IRA tweet mentioning Mueller (from left-targeted account @wokeluisa) associates Mueller with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Right-wing troll @TEN_GOP speculates that the investigation will go nowhere and name-drops #SethRich.
What topics come up in the IRA Mueller tweets? 57.6% of the tweets contain one or more of the terms shown in this chart. Trump/Russia/deep state categories are the most prominent; uranium, Seth Rich, and pizzagate are interesting inclusions.
Here are the media websites most frequently linked from IRA troll tweets about the Mueller investigation. A whopping 76% of the links are to reportsecret(dot)com, a now-defunct website that plagiarized content from TruthFeed news. One more thing. . .
It's not unlikely that reportsecret(dot)com was itself an Internet Research Agency operation. Further detail in this thread:
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