At least 125 Twitter accounts attempted to tweet their fears that the Voting Rights Advancement Act constitutes a "direct attack on our elections" at their elected representatives. Not all of them have the "tagging the rep in question" part figured out.
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@ZellaQuixote The tweet about the Voting Rights Advancement Act is not the only shared piece of propaganda to be found on these accounts; many also tweeted this tweet about adoption agencies, for example. What's going on?
@ZellaQuixote The answer: heritageaction(dot)com, a right-wing website that offers prewritten tweets about various issues that you can tweet with the click of a button. Many of the accounts ignored the instruction to fill in their representative's Twitter handle. #YouHadOneJob
@ZellaQuixote We found 780 accounts that had tweeted one or more of the 20 most recently offered prefabricated tweets on heritageaction(dot)com. These accounts largely operate on US time, look organic (other than the prefabricated tweets), and link right-wing conspiracy media.
@ZellaQuixote The heritageaction tweets are the only non-trivial content duplicated verbatim on large numbers of accounts in the network, and most accounts tweeted multiple tweets.
(Shared tweet network of a sample of our followers is shown as a control group for the network visualization.)
(Shared tweet network of a sample of our followers is shown as a control group for the network visualization.)
