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10 Oct, 6 tweets, 7 min read
Meet @DanielWilson_1, @PradipWebber, and @Sybil__Evans, a trio of interesting accounts that each got thousands of followers via the "Round Year Fun"/realactivefollowers(dot)com family of malicious Twitter apps ("My Twitter Family", "My Twitter Crush", etc).

cc: @ZellaQuixote
If you've used any of the "Round Year Fun" apps ("My Twitter Family", "My Twitter Crush", etc), your account has probably involuntarily followed one or more of the customers of a follower sales site. Here's how to revoke the apps' access to your account:
Massive infusions of involuntary followers from Round Year Fun is not the only thing @DanielWilson_1, @PradipWebber, and @Sybil__Evans have in common. Each has also quote tweeted pro-CCP/anti-Guo Wengui cartoons (in some cases, from accounts subsequently suspended by Twitter).
Interestingly, all 3 accounts were renamed over the last year(ish).

• @DanielWilson_1 (ID 909476733174321152) was previously @unitysidnac
• @PradipWebber (ID 409446320) was previously @scomaxuezhi and @GabrielIochanas
• @Sybil__Evans (ID 370933999) was previously @j_shap6
This combination of traits (followers from Round Year Fun, pro-CCP cartoons, and recent account rename/makeover) also turned up recently in two fake journalist accounts: the now-suspended @jessica05181 () and @kris_verma1984 ().
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3 Oct
Meet @kris_verma1984, a Twitter account that ostensibly belongs to a guest writer for the Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) by the name of "Kris Harrison" and resembles the now-suspended fake Guardian journalist account @jessica05181 in multiple interesting ways.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
A google search of the Sydney Morning Herald's website for "Kris Harrison" turns up no content written by anyone named "Kris Harrison", and @kris_verma1984 has never linked any Sydney Morning Herald content whatsoever.
As was the case with fake Guardian journalist @jessica05181, @kris_verma1984 (permanent ID 1074631446067843072) was renamed along the way. Internet Archive confirms that back in 2020 it was named @addiaeeprint and its display name was "Maria Pia" rather than "Kris Harrison".
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28 Sep
A 41 page document chock full of disinformation about COVID-19 (including claims that the vaccines may be mind control technology) written by someone using the pseudonym "Spartacus" has been making the rounds on Twitter the last few days. Here's how it spread.

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The "Spartacus" COVID disinfo document first appeared on docdroid(dot)com on Sept 24 2021. The first Twitter account to share it was a small Italian-language account, @number229401056. The second was @RWMaloneMD, whose tweet linking the letter was retweeted nearly 1000 times.
The so-called "Spartacus letter" was first posted to DocDroid, it was removed relatively quickly, resulting in subsequent reposting on a variety of sites. The copy of the document most frequently shared on Twitter is hosted by right-wing disinformation blog @zerohedge.
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25 Sep
Is @WaltWhiteCrypto getting retweets from a freshly-cooked batch of bots with GAN-generated profile pics? (Spoiler: Yes) #TheBotsWhoKnock

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

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The botnet amplifying @WaltWhiteCrypto (and others) consists of 936 accounts created in August and September 2021. All have lowercase display names (first + last name) and follow zero accounts, and all have GAN-generated profile pics.
All 936 accounts in this network (allegedly) tweet via the Twitter Web App. The network is active round-the-clock, and all of its content is retweets. It mostly amplifies cryptocurrency accounts, although the most frequently retweeted account is a media account, @TheLevantNewsEN.
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21 Sep
Why do so many Journey fans have a goal of exactly 18K followers, and why are all of their biographies identical? #DontStopAstroturfin

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The weirdly identical Journey fan accounts are part of a network consisting of (at least) 28750 accounts created in Aug/Sept 2021. All have similar-looking random names, no tweets, few or no followers, follow similar numbers of accounts, and have liked similar numbers of tweets. ImageImage
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18 Sep
Another day, another evidence-free viral rumor. The claim that General Dynamics canceled their vaccine mandate appears to have originated with @AlexGiorgio6, a Twitter account that has no apparent connection to General Dynamics or any journalistic entity.

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12 Sep
It's a great day for a look at the astroturf network that followed @ElectionWiz (ID 1290635110149169152, formerly named @Wizard_Predicts among other things) back at the beginning of its Twitter career (immediately after its first follower, @Barnes_Law).

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