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31 Jan, 8 tweets, 5 min read
The charges against the Twitter propagandist known as "Ricky Vaughn" for election interference include four co-conspirators identified by Twitter account IDs. Three are now-suspended major alt-right accounts. We took a look at the fourth (@1080p, ID 6091342).

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(Links to NBC's article about the arrest of "Ricky Vaughn" and the related DOJ documents)
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The @1080p account (permanent ID 6091342) appears to have self-deleted, but we found archives of its content from 2013 and 2016. It tweeted only a few times in 2016, but got large numbers of retweets on its political tweets for having only 402 followers.
Since @1080p's tweets are no longer online, it's impossible to directly query Twitter's API to find out who retweeted them. We can still find the large accounts that amplified it, however, as they are the first account tagged in any replies to their retweets of @1080p's tweets.
This table shows the prominent accounts that appear to have retweeted @1080p's content related to the 2016 election. It is based on replies to 13 of @1080p's tweets, and likely incomplete. (We filtered out a few accounts that were already tagged in the tweets being replied to.)
We found one earlier archive of a @1080p tweet, from 2013. This tweet does not appear to be political and links to a now-defunct website, 1080pD82(dot)ca.
We found a few archives of the 1080pD82(dot)ca website. Back in 2007 (which is also when the @1080p Twitter account was created) it appears to have been associated with some sort of challenge wherein one could win a television.
By 2009 the website had been replaced with spam, indicating the original owner had likely lost control of it. Since @1080p was still linking it in 2013, we suspect the account was also no longer operated by its original owner, either in 2013 or in 2016 when it went political.

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