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A Saudi-based network of 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots that railed against the “Russiagate hoax” shortly after the Mueller report release were removed from Twitter. The same bots also pushed messages backing Kushner's pal, MBS.
by @oneunderscore__ #Maddow nbcnews.to/2IPkzNH
Saudi Arabia and their contractors have conducted extensive influence campaigns on Twitter in recent years. Former MBS advisor, al-Qahtani, is known as the “Minister of the Flies” for hiring bot and troll armies to swarm on detractors of the govt.
#Maddow
Where there's a "troll farm," Cambridge Analytica or its parent company SCL won't be far behind. SCL [which received $15M from Robert Mercer in 2014] worked for the Saudi govt in 2014 and recently helped shape Crown Prince MBS's "reform efforts."
#Maddow
Former advisor to Saudi Crown Prince MBS, Saud al-Qahtani, known as the “Minister of the Flies” for hiring bot and troll armies to swarm on detractors of the Saudi govt, was also labeled by activists and writers as “Saudi Arabia’s Steve Bannon.”
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