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If you're in need of a largely automated purveyor of #antivax tomfoolery such as this Russia Today article, @ViraBurnayeva has got you covered. #MakeEradicatedViralDiseasesGreatAgain
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
What does @ViraBurnayeva's tweet content look like? Variations on a theme, where the theme is #antivax and so are the variations. @ViraBurnayeva does at least mix things up a bit with the media links; some of them sell supplements instead or in addition to pushing pseudoscience.
For the last four months, @ViraBurnayeva has been tweeting #antivax content 24/7, automated via a custom app called "Vaccines and Homeopathy News", with occasional organic tweets mixed in (largely replies). What happened in the gap between 2016 and 2019?
Evidently, @ViraBurnayeva previously tweeted as the now-suspended @LotusOak, with 140K+ followers per both the new account's tweet lamenting the suspension and Internet Archive. Interestingly, banned Internet Research Agency trolls retweeted 12 of @LotusOak's tweets.
(vaguely related: thread from February 2019 on #antivax Twitter activity)
