Pro-Bolsonaro accounts are spamming follow trains under a variety of hashtags. Here's a quick look at the network (or network of networks, rather). #PlatformManipulationMonday
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To map out Bolsonaro trains, we began with one train hashtag (#ArqueirosPatriotas) and explored the networks of accounts using it to find more. We wound up with 12 hashtags (often used in combination), 16969 trains, and 229795 retweets of trains between April 1 and June 13 2021.
We considered any non-reply tweet containing at least one of the follow train hashtags, at least 10 tags of other accounts, and no substantive additional text content to be train tweets. Over half of the volume (56.1%) is trains listing at least 20 accounts or retweets thereof.
The retweet network for the Bolsonaro follow train hashtags contains two major clusters: one which tweets pro-Trump train hashtags (orange/red) and one that does not (yellow/green/blue). The clusters are interconnected, as many accounts retweet trains from both groups.
(Thread on the pro-Bolsonaro/pro-Trump follow trains that comprise the red cluster in the network in the previous tweet)
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1395945570641006599
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