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7 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Twitter permanently banned @gatewaypundit yesterday. With it gone, here's what the retweet network for thegatewaypundit(dot)com looks like: two main clusters (English and Japanese), and the main nodes are @mei98862477, @kirstiealley, and @CassandraRules.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
Japanese-language accounts have been turning up prominently in US-centric right wing Twitter content for a while. Back in January 2020, 23.3% of tweets linking now-defunct QAnon site qmap(dot)pub were in Japanese.
Around the time of the November 2020 US election, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Rudy Giuliani all experienced a large influx of Japanese-language followers. #KrakenWorldTour2020
Japanese-language Twitter accounts also turn up prominently in tweets linking to right-wing alternative social media site Gab. #AltWankers

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For a change of pace, here's a look at a network of meme-spamming Indonesian-language bots created at the beginning of the new year. #MondayMotivation

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6 Feb
What do these eighteen blue-check accounts have in common (other than the profile graphics)? Answer: they're all old accounts that were recently renamed and redecorated, giving the appearance that they are official Baja California Sur government accounts.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
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5 Feb
Running a Yandex reverse image search on a GAN-generated face pic sometimes returns other GAN face pics, as happened here. #ThursdayShenaniGANs

(GAN = "generative adversarial network", the AI technique used by thispersondoesnotexist.com to generate fake faces.)

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The Yandex reverse image search lead us to a page featuring 4 GAN-generated face pics, supposedly specialists with a pest control company in Ulyanovsk, Russia. #ThisRoachRemovalSpecialistDoesNotExist
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4 Feb
What's up with all these extremely similar-looking job listing tweets, many of which are cut off mid-word? #Spamtastic

cc: @ZellaQuixote
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3 Feb
Meet @Mollyycolllinss, @SteveeRogerr, @ThomassRichards, a trio of accounts created in December 2020/January 2021 with unnecessary extra letters in their names that appear to be exploiting @buzz_chronicle to harvest the content of thousands of Twitter threads.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
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Despite the fact that musician Tommy Page passed away in 2017, his verified Twitter account (@TommyPage) is merrily tweeting away in 2021. Although one can never entirely rule out supernatural involvement, we think there's a more mundane explanation. . .

cc: @ZellaQuixote
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