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[Thread] 1/ Ahh the MAGA copy and paste crowd are trying to do damage limitation on Trump's disinfectant in lungs blunder. Look at all these near identical tweets. A hasty PR campaign, or sloppy Twitter usage? My hunch says the former... #coronavirus #Covid_19
2/ And there's more...
3/ and a few more. Patient zero seems to be this Robby Starbuck fella....Thanks a latte Robby
4/ This Robby Starbuck guy really cares about defending Trump.... #Covid_19
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This is an unusual story. Saudi and UAE accounts and news outlets are discussing the death of Fahad Buhendi in a Qatari prison. He is portrayed as a journalist and activist. What is odd is that his Twitter accounted was suspended in 2017 for supporting the Islamic State,
and he was reportedly detained (according to Al Wasat Newspaper who sourced @ZaidBenjamin5 ) back in 2017. It is unusual because Saudi press have criticised Qatar for supporting terrorism and Daesh, and are now not even mentioning the fact that a Daesh supported was detained
Another interesting dimension is the strategic promotion of this news item. This graph shows how many retweets the 355 most recent tweets from @BBCArabic got. The tweet about Fahad Buhendi got 1035 RTs, while the average number of RTs was just 18. Clearly someone wanted this
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[Thread] 1/ This thread is on how Donald Trump's inarticulate suggestion that injecting disinfectant or conducting light therapy might kill #Covid_19. I downloaded 25000 tweets, RTs, mentions etc from around 13,000 unique accounts. I searched for tweets mentioning the term
2/ "Blood" and "irradiation". The reason for this is that following Trump's address a number of his loyal Twitter fans sought to rationalise his stupidity by implying that actually he knew what he was talking about by claiming he was referring to Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation -
3/ a form of therapy used mostly in the 40s and 50s (before widespread penicillin availability). What's interesting is that this narrative, which implies Trump is knowledgeable on facts, is patently false, as Trump himself acknowledged he was being sarcastic (which he wasn't)
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[Thread] 1/ Donald Trump has retweeted @HeshmatAlavi - an account believed to be operated by a number of people working for the MEK - Mojahedin-e-Khalq, a cultish opposition group -many of whom are based in Albania theintercept.com/2019/06/09/hes…
2/ I thought I'd analyse Heshmat's followers. Simply because followers are usually indicative of a target audience, especially if that account is designed for propaganda. It would give us some insight into who promotes his tweets, but more importantly, which community is being
3/ 'nudged'. So I downloaded all 67000 of Heshmat's followers and conducted a corpus analysis of their biographies. E.g. what do they have in common, what are the most salient communities for example.
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