[Another thread on Saudi bots] 1/ On the day of the release of the CIA report onto #JamalKhashoggi 's killing. A number of hashtags seemingly designed to dilute criticism of MBS were trended, including the mispelled 'khasxoggi' and 3aaashogggi (عاشخجي), These trends were created
2/ by inauthentic networks amounting to thousands of accounts. The below graph shows approx 1,152 unique accounts all tweeting on the "عااااشقجي" hashtag (3aaashoggi). The fact they are individual and not forming complex networks indicates they are isolated accounts tweeting 
3/ Of the 1152 accounts, 1147 (99%) used 'Twitter Web App', showing almost no source (application) diversity. Twitter Web App is often used for platform manipulation. Again, how something can trend with so many inorganic flags is beyond me. Most of the content is irrelevant
4/ quotes or phrases (so spam) essentially. Needless to say, this violates Twitters spam policies. So to sum up. 1000+ fake accounts spam Khashoggi hashtag with irrelevant content on day CIA report implicating MBS is published help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p…
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