Interesting. I wonder if that’s what Roger Stone did. He got an early start: around 2011. 1/
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1492300105549897728
I discuss some of that here. See what Roger Stone did to journalist Bob Norman in 2011 or 2012. With his protege Andrew Miller, Stone created a literally fake news site too. (He later created another one with a different protege, Jacob Engels). 2/ jennycohn1.medium.com/roger-stone-wa…
He used fake accounts to infiltrate @RogerWants’ Facebook groups around this time too. 3/
“During his investigation of the 2016 election, special prosecutor Robert Mueller determined that Stone had ‘orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts and bloggers to run a political influence scheme on social media in 2016,’ as reported by CNN.” 4/ jennycohn1.medium.com/roger-stone-al…
5/ “Stone and his proteges made heavy use of Twitter as well.”
6/“Welcome To The Age of Weaponized Social Media,’ said a strategy document Sullivan prepared for Stone,” per Reuters. “Sullivan described a ‘system’ he devised for creating Twitter ‘swarms’ as ‘an army of sophisticated, hyper-targeted direct tweet automation systems…”
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