"those tweets spread in an odd pattern: More than half the 3,000 accounts retweeting Trump did so in near-perfect synchronicity, so that the 945th tweet was the same number of seconds apart as the 946th" washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
"just 20 conservative, pro-Trump Twitter accounts — including the president’s own @realDonaldTrump — were the original source of one-fifth of retweets pushing misleading narratives about voting" eipartnership.net/rapid-response…
"President Trump has repeatedly cited his concerns over voter fraud associated with mail-in ballots as a reason that he may not abide by an adverse electoral outcome." cyber.harvard.edu/publication/20…
"some of the most common spreaders of misinformation were right-wing news sites like Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit. YouTube also served as a major source of misinformation about these topics, according to Zignal" .nytimes.com/2020/10/27/tec…
A core group of more than 500 followers — with 832,000 followers retweet Trump in the same identical pattern

-Trump had 20M Twitter followers before the election
-56% of 3,000 retweets were shared in the same pattern over a period of 24 hours.
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