Thread by @conspirator0

Whilst looking at bots tweeting links to ZeroHedge, we encountered the recently awakened bilingual newsbots @rotepille (German for "Red Pill".) #ThursdayThoughts

cc: @ZellaQuixote

ZeroHedge searches in general continue to get bottier; the last 10 days worth of tweets appear to be 9.8%, up from 7.3% in mid-February. @rotepille is at least the 5th newly-made or reawakened bot to start pushing ZeroHedge since @zerohedge's suspension.

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1231629224714362880

In what may or may not have been a reaction to the 2018 midterms, @rotepille went silent from Nov 9, 2018 to Feb 28, 2020. Although its early tweets were sent via "Mobile Web (M2)" rather than a custom app, we nonetheless believe they were automated due to the rigid schedule.

For the first few years, @rotepille promoted its own now-defunct site (dierotepille(dot)com) in English and German. It later switched to predominantly linking ZeroHedge and Breitbart, as well as a right-wing site called silverdoctors(dot)org that mostly gets linked by bots.

What hashtags does @rotepille attach to its dubious news site spam? #gold, #trump, #war, #silver, #russia, and #eu top the list; #bitcoin, #migrant, and #corona-virus are interesting inclusions.