I believe I've managed to uncover a state backed sockpuppet and bot network currently active on @twitter at this very moment, and no it isn't Russian medium.com/@z3dster/on-so…
A few weeks ago @thedailybeast's @arawnsley published a piece on a network of fake news stories published by real news site. Someone had created fake personas to accomplish this, fake profile images, fake backstories, fake everything thedailybeast.com/right-wing-med…
I ran those fake news stories back through Twitter to see who had been sharing them and landed an account for Dima, an Ohio based Soviet born Jewish American
Looking at his profile pic some issues started to appear in that bio, see if you can eyespy everything wrong in this image
Following Dima's tweets I found more sockpuppet accounts in his like
3 accounts all created on the same day liking one of this tweets
It was this tweet attacking @kenvogel for what they thought was being too pro-Qatar
In the same network of sockpuppets I found this account using an image of murder victim Mollie Tibbetts for it's avatar
I also found Dima sharing links to a strange Nigerian blog
I searched the headline from that blog and found a whole network of Nigerian sites all with the exact same story but different authors listed
I believe whoever was behind the network of fake articles @arawnsley uncovered was also behind this network of fake accounts on Twitter. Additionally whoever sold them the account initially appears to currently have hundreds if not thousands of accounts sitting around waiting...
...to be sold. In the meantime they are tweeting out span, porn, and selling likes to those trying to artificially build up their own account's.
The Medium article I've written goes more in depth in to some of the accounts and my findings medium.com/@z3dster/on-so…
@josh_emerson has a good guide to our research of using existing databases of sockpuppets to find more
It's crazy the slide from the GOP trying to find it's footing after Charlottesville to deflecting multiple mass shootings based on the same racist ideology to just not caring that they will face any effect post Buffalo because given history they are mostly right
The Texas Walmart shooting was the last one they even attempted to act upset it had happened
Since then they haven't had to care because no one, voters, media, or opposition hold them on
Right wing violence is just an expected built in part of the process while peaceful marching in front of the homes of unelected man appointed to stolen seats by presidents elected by
Our society and specially our media have decided that violence has a proper direction, people who should experience violence: women, gays, leftists, etc...
1/6 is written off because violence from the right is expected and baked in after string after string of shootings...
...pipe bombs, car ramming, etc...
But the second someone from the left lifts a finger it's end times. It is why the Portland PD can get away with lying about violence against peaceful protestors or why the LA sheriff can use his platform to go after those calling for ...
..reform of a department that literally blew up a city block by being cowboys
The expectation is that nothing will happen, the left will be suppressed and maybe throw around some cardboard signs
We aren't at the point that the system has failed to the point of Balkanization