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21 Jul, 6 tweets, 4 min read
⚠️The other day I tweeted everyone is susceptible to disinformation, and here is another example of how an inaccurate tweet from an account with a high Bot Sentinel rating can go viral. The tweet has over 20k likes, but the quote is fake...

Profile: botsentinel.com/profile/120315…
Journalists, media personalities, and high-profile Twitter influencers have retweeted this inaccurate quote and shared it with their followers, and it has quickly gone viral organically. The same thing that we witnessed happen in 2016 continues to happen today.
I ran an analysis on the tweet activity data, and it's worse than I initially thought. Here are the top accounts that retweeted the fake quote with the highest impact.
According to the data, that fake quote has the potential to reach nearly 18 million people. 🤦🏾‍♂️
Approximately 2 hours later, another account tweeted the exact false quote, and that tweet also went viral.
Twitter suspended the first account, and the second account's tweets are now protected.

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💡We are going to try a little experiment. Determine if the following statements are true or false, but don't use Google for the answers.

🛑DON'T TWEET THE ANSWERS!!!

1. Lauren Boebert took a photo with insurrectionists on the US Capitol steps days before 1/6.
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Each time I talk to a journalist, I am asked why companies like Twitter don't do more to stop disinformation, targeted attacks, bots, and toxic trolls? My answer is they can't, but not from a lack of trying, but because they are understaffed and under-equipped. Let me explain...
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29 May
🤖The other day I let everyone know we were releasing the next generation of our classifier and classification model. I stated some scores would go up significantly and don’t open support requests because your score changed. Of course, people opened support requests anyway...
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29 May
Let's be clear here, the GOP is using disinformation tactics to rewrite recent history. So here is the truth...

1/6 wasn't a peaceful protest or just another day at the Capitol Building. It was an attempted insurrection incited by Trump and several Republican lawmakers...
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