Thread by @marcowenjones

🧵1/5 After Biden announced @johnpodesta would join his climate team, Podesta was in the headlines again. I downloaded about 20,000 tweets mentioning 'John Podesta' from the last 2 days, and curiously enough it's dominated by right-wing, alt-right accounts & #disinfo accounts

2/5 While the usual suspects (Jack Posobiec, Kyle Becker) are not saying anything particularly outlandish (that I noticed), I was struck by the fact the second most tweeted account was a Pizza Gate conspiracy trope by a verified US candidate @RealOmarNavarro . See photos >

3/5 As the graph below shows, @RealOmarNavarro 's tweets were clearly influential within the mentions of Podesta. When I asked people to see what tweets they saw when they searched Twitter for 'John Podesta' many said the top tweet was the one clearly alluding to John Podesta

4/5 being a paedophile. It's alarming that Twitter's algorithm is raising the prominence of this tweet, which itself has generated a lot of responses from sketchy anonymous accounts bringing back the Pizza Gate conspiracy.

5/5 And for those who don't know what Pizza Gate is, this is a good read For those who don't remember how dangerous and toxic it was. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Also the 'damning' images being shared by @RealOmarNavarro are paintings by Serbian artist biljana djurdjevic