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Yahoo News published a story today about the origins of the "Seth Rich was murdered by the DNC for leaking to @wikileaks" conspiracy theory (spoiler: Russian intelligence plays a major role.) We analyzed ensuing Twitter traffic for "Seth Rich" and #SethRich.

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The first accounts to tweet about #SethRich after the Yahoo story dropped didn't get much traction. Some share the story while others continue to spread conspiracy theories. Some appear to be responding to the story, while some may not have read it.
Retweet network for "Seth Rich"/#SethRich. The network separates into two major clusters of accounts; one consists of accounts spreading conspiracy theories about Rich's murder and one does not. (This separation is common for highly polarized topics.)
A couple of major themes emerge in the tweets of the accounts that continued to spread #SethRich conspiracy narratives following the release of the Yahoo story:

- "leak not a hack"
- Yahoo story is a deep state plot to distract from X

Also, @realMattCouch's meltdown? Legendary.
What media sources are linked by accounts discussing #SethRich following the Yahoo story? The accounts spreading conspiracy narratives mostly link right-wing conspiracy sites (with RT thrown in for good measure), while the accounts that don't largely link Western MSM.
(the Yahoo story that triggered renewed interest in #SethRich conspiracy theories)
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Yesterday RT/Russia Today published an article hyping a short paper purporting to demonstrate "no evidence" for anthropogenic climate change. Mockery of both @AOC's #GreenNewDeal proposal and @JayInslee's climate plan (via link) are included for good measure.

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We downloaded tweets linking to the RT climate change study article, resulting in 563 tweets from 526 accounts over the course of 21 hours. The retweets don't form a single network; rather, multiple accounts seem to have disseminated the story independently.
Who linked RT's article first? Two automated accounts: the second is @RT_com (official account), but an unrelated newsbot (@AndyVermaut) beat them to it.

(Yes, @FrankOuest's tweet (#14) appears to be calling anti-climate change measures a "demonic agenda". #QuestionMore)
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We took a look at #MAGA follower trains, which appear to be a significant means by which fans of 45 network/organize.

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The concept is simple: account that already has a lot of followers tweets a "train" tweet/thread consisting of a list of accounts to follow. These threads in turn receive replies from users wishing to be included in the next train.
To gather a set of #MAGA accounts that had grown their followings at least in part by participating in trains, we searched for replies containing both "MAGA" and "your train" and then harvested the accounts that posted or retweeted the train tweets being replied to.
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When Twitter went down for about an hour earlier this afternoon, some folks made the observation that the outage took place at the same time as the "social media summit" at the White House.

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We downloaded tweets containing "social", "media", "summit", "Twitter", and "down", "offline", or "outage." After filtering out false positives, we ended up with 1636 tweets from 1571 accounts. A few lucky souls fired off their tweets as the site was crashing. Where'd this start?
Here are the first 20 accounts to tweet (retweets not included) about the Twitter outage happening concurrently with the "summit". The tweets are a mix of neutral observations, jokes, and veiled suggestions of the timing being deliberate on Twitter's part.
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Brian Cates
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OK you all know it's not just an AMAZING COINCIDENCE that Assange got arrested NOW, right?

Now that Mueller finally closed shop & issued his final report & Barr fired a shot across the bow of the elite establishment?
What's the biggest card the stupid Trump/Russia Collusion Hoaxters have been holding onto to sell their hoax to their fans?

"RUSSIAN HACKERS broke in and STOLE the Podesta/DNC emails, guyz!"

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You knew all that, right?
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Matt Couch 🎙
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⚠️It's time for a little Seth Rich Thread... Let's get up to speed.

#SethRich #HisNameWasSethRich
As I get going with this, this morning, you'll see some old and some new. I have many new followers, and they all need brought up to speed. We have lots of New tangible information, but most people won't bring themselves to read the reports on our website by @hannibalmoot
1) Seth Rich was the Director of New Voter Registration for the Democratic party (DNC). He was not just a regular DNC Staffer as the mainstream media, DNC, and others will lead you to believe.
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Matt Couch 🎙
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Let's talk about Seth Rich, shall we... I guess its' time to inform New followers.. We've had lots of requests..

Consider this an Official Seth Rich Thread..

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Seth Rich was the DNC Data Director of New Voter Registration for the Democrats..

He was NOT a "Staffer" as the Mainstream Media has reported repeatedly.

#SethRich
According to original reports, Seth Rich was at Lou's City Bar on Saturday Night July 9th, 2016.

We'll now walk you through that timeline.

#SethRich
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Matt Couch 🎙
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As Promised, The Official America First Media Seth Rich Thread during the Super Bowl.

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1) Seth Rich was the Data Director of New Voter Registration for the Democrats. Not a "Staffer" as the Mainstream Media will try to tell you. #SethRich #HisNameWasSethRich #AmericaFirstMedia
2) Seth Rich started off his career working for the polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner where he would meet Andrew Therriault. He would be groomed by Therriault, who would later recruit Seth to the DNC, and help him land the job there. #SethRich #AmericaFirstMedia
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Matt Couch 🔸
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Official Friday the 13th Seth Rich Thread... I'll be adding to this all day, Going to Pin It America! All in one place as requested.
1) Seth Rich was murdered around 4:19 AM in the 5th District of Washington D.C. according to Metro DC Police. He was shot twice in the back!
2) According to the Mainstream Media, Seth Rich was just a "DNC Staffer" You'll find out in this thread, that's not the case. #SethRich
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