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1. Another attempt to get people to understand how the Russian disinformation campaign worked, what it is doing now, and how to address it.
Of the 3,000 in the campaign discovered by Twitter, here is when they were set up. Note the explosion in 2015 as primaries about to start..
Of the 3,000 in the campaign discovered by Twitter, here is when they were set up. Note the explosion in 2015 as primaries about to start..
2...part of the scam is to look perfectly normal, appealing to various interests, to get followers before becoming a mechanism for retweeting propaganda. Here is an example of one trying to lure in fitness people (target: young)...
3...that one existed for a month, retweeted stuff, lured in followers. But it was set up for use pre-2018 election. Lasted long enough to get some names and retweet, then shut it down to start another....
4...here is where the interactions with that account came from. (And it was a Russian bot.)....
5...here is one that also was going for the 2018 election, appealed to folks interested in racial issues, then later began attacks on dems....
6....remember how @GOP focused so much on Sid Blumenthal, friend of HRC? They took emails from Guccifer 2 - Russian intelligence, and GOP KNEW it - then GOP misrepresented what they said to get on Fox. And Russia kept spreading the lies it and GOP crafted. Russia below ...
