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In light of Julian Assange's arrest, the volume of #SethRich conspiracy tweets has of course increased. We'll take a quick look at one obviously automated account that's been engaging in these shenanigans: @Parsival2112.
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
How do we know @Parsival2112 is automated? 98.9% of its tweets are posted via automation service IFTTT. It copies the tweets posted by Infowars lackey @PrisonPlanet, anti-vaxxer @Jordan_Sather_, #QAnon conspiracy account @WeAreOne_QAnon, as well as @elonmusk, and @PokemonGoApp.
What does @Parsival2112 tweet about? This is pretty much a rhetorical question: since it's a bot that copies most of its tweets from other accounts and has been for a couple of years, it tweets about whatever they tweet about. So it goes.
If you want a media diet that doesn't consist of bogus nutritional supplements and conspiracy theories, @Parsival2112 is not the bot for you: two-thirds of its media links are to Infowars.
BTW, another of the linked sites (raptr . com) triggers an unsafe site warning in Chrome.
BTW, another of the linked sites (raptr . com) triggers an unsafe site warning in Chrome.
An interesting outcome, considering that almost all of @Parsival2112's tweets are automated.
