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7 Oct, 7 tweets, 5 min read
It would appear that #LatinosForTrump is as much astroturf as it is wishful thinking. Maybe less "astroturf" than the very fake "#AmishForTrump" that got skewered on Twitter. Russian media defended the lady with designer sunglasses, an iPhone & Gucci handbag as being Amish
And no doubt Russia will come to the aid of the #LatinosForTrump campaign as well. We looked at this recent tweet by the Trump campaign sanctioned account @\EquipoTrump promoting the hashtag #LatinosForTrump with a campaign video. We reviewed the first 210 most immediate retweets
Not surprisingly there were alot of relatively new accounts and a seeming paucity of authentic Hispanic accounts.
Out of the first 210 retweets 2 accounts were already suspended and 1 changed by the time we did the full analysis. Fourteen out of the 210 were created in 2019 or 2020 and still had a default "egghead" profile picture.
Recent Hoaxy analysis of the hashtag #LatinosForTrump also demonstrates a high level of potential inauthentic and/or coordinated accounts boosting and retweeting this hashtag on Twitter.
And straight out of the gate ... the first account to interact with this thread tonight is "Bob". Welcome to Twitter "Bob"
And the frankly strange intersection of the white supremacy group Proud Boys and Latinos For Trump seems part grifting, part marketing, and part political opportunism. #infoOps #osint #disinfo

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