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Aug 7, 2024 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
🧵🚨I wanted to do another thread on the account @EuropeInvasionn. It's been one of the most widely viewed anti-immigrant & anti-muslim disinfluencers on X since the #Southport murders. Read more to learn about its shocking reach, disinformation, & hate speech #UKRiots Image
2/ Reminder. @Europeinvasionn is engaged in deception. We can tell this because it's a hijacked account. The account was created in 2010, but hacked/sold & scrubbed & has only tweeted since Feb 24. It's previous handle was makcanerkripto. Note the 'crypto' red flag... Image
3/ First up. Impressions. Since 27th July, the account has racked up over 133,475,023 impressions. To put that in words, that's one hundred thirty-three million four hundred seventy-five thousand and twenty-three. That is phenomenal. Image
4/ Here I plotted the tweets over time. They are colour coded as to whether the tweets were negative neutral or positive towards Muslims or immigrants. Out of 230 tweets, 66% were negative, and 34% neutral (Many of the neutral ones contextually were also negative). Image
5/ Over the past 10 days, the account has spread numerous high profile pieces of disinformation. I have highlighted the demonstrably and egregiously false information in yellow. Of course all these lies are directed at Arab, Muslims or immigrants. There's even a 'civil war' tweet Image
6/ Some close ups of the disinformation. Note when referring to the graph that many of the posts with the most impressions were false. Disinformation is often sensationalist, and sensationalism gets clicks. Most of the disinfo falsely blames Muslims for crimes #UKriots Image
7/ The fact that this account remains on the platform exemplifies the indifference X has to disinfo, hate speech, and fake accounts. Not only that, @elonmusk, aka the disinfluencer-in-chief, has even boosted this account with his replies. Shocking state of affairs Image
8/ Oh, and as an added 'bonus', it also posts super creepy, racist AI imagery. #UkRiots Image
9/ Oh and as an added bonus you can view the tables and charts here, and hover over the bubbles to look at the tweet text: public.tableau.com/shared/YZQYQJR…
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Dec 22
It's finally here! Remember that weird group of Emirati influencers you keep seeing online. Well I've done a VERY deep dive, & the story is even weirder than you can imagine!

"Amjad Taha, Muslim Brotherhood Maxxing & the Emirati #Dysinfluencer Factory"
open.substack.com/pub/marcowenjo…Image
2/ Until late 2024, most people had never heard of this group of Emirati influencers, including the somewhat infamous Rauda AlTenaiji. Then they appeared everywhere: op-eds, podcasts, think tanks, conferences. This piece maps how that visibility was built. Image
3/ This open source investigation documents a pattern of manufactured influence: coordinated account creation, shared studios, pseudo-news sites, AI-assisted content, and systematic amplification across platforms. Image
Read 10 tweets
Dec 20
1/🧵🤖 - BIG YEMEN BOT ANALYSIS THREAD

In the past week, hashtags linked to Southern #Yemen have surged on X notably:
القوات الجنوبيه طارده_للارهاب (“Southern forces are expelling terrorism”).

👉TLDR: over 5000 X bots are promoting promoting STC control of southern Yemen Image
2/ First, context: Saudi Arabia has mobilised up to 20,000 fighters on Yemen’s borders after the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) made significant territorial advances in Hadhramaut and Mahra theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…
3/ The STC is using these gains to push for a return to two states, arguing that an independent South would act as a bulwark against terrorism and protect Red Sea shipping routes. Much of the international community continue to emphasise Yemen’s territorial unity.
Read 16 tweets
Oct 15
🧵1/🚨AI is learning Israel's disinformation.

On 13/08, a fake quote attributed to Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya circulated on X:

“The countdown to the next massacre has begun. Next time we will slaughter all the Jews"

It was debunked, but Gemini later stated it as fact > Image
2/ Firstly, this super sus account was the first I could find spreading the rumour on X (7.49 am UK time 13/08). @RonanMark572778 - whoever this 'pilot and physician' is has sent >113k tweets since July 2023. He also has a verified account (rememeber verification = algo boost). Image
3/ The narrative then was picked up on X by other accounts and influencers, changing ever so slightly. Accounts like @FleurHassanN @thevoicetruth1 (lol) got a lot of engagement and 'legitimised' the rumour.

NOTE: Not one of these accounts is providing a source to the quote. Image
Read 15 tweets
Oct 6
🧵🚨1/ This verified X account posing as an American doctor has been spreading pro-Israel propaganda, justifying the killing of journalists, and posting predominantly anti–Sudanese Armed Forces content. The account is fake.>
#disinformation #gazagenocide #Sudan Image
2/ The first clear red flags are the tweets versus creation date ratio.

The account was created in 2009, but has only tweeted 1090 times, and the first of those was on April 2025. This means the account has been appropriated/hacked/bought and its old tweets scrubbed. Image
3/ I located the unique user id of the account. I ran this user id via the botometer archive of bots and it tells me that in February 2023 the account was called 'sitaramks', not 'nate_jone' Image
Read 15 tweets
Oct 6
1/ Propaganda botnet alert! About 50 accounts, tweeting in English & Arabic, have pushed out thousands of posts about #Sudan’s war over the past few months. Almost all certainly using genAI, all pushing a pro-UAE, anti-SAF & anti Muslim (Brotherhood) narrative. #disinformation Image
2/ They all follow the same script:

> Blame Burhan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Muslim Brotherhood for Sudan’s suffering.
> Praise the UAE for “stability” and “humanitarian aid.”
> Wrap it all in moral language about peace, tolerance, and unity. Image
3/ Much of the phrasing is synthetic: with odd, weird idioms, and em dashes. Classic traces of Chat GPT or another LLM agent. The slogans repeat across accounts:

e.g. “Brotherhood’s Butler”, “Brotherhood in Uniform”, “Ministry of Brotherhood Enforcement”, "Sudan bleeds" Image
Read 14 tweets
May 22
🤖 1/ Ok this is pretty wild. I saw some sus pro-Israel astroturfing activity on a BBCNews Facebook post about aid arriving in Gaza. Lots of Hasbara comments like "Hamas will take the aid". The following 2 identical posts were side by side so I looked into it. #disinformation Image
2/ Specifically I looked at Dean O' Connor. Firstly up, there were two almost identical Dean O'connor pages, both created on consecutive days last week (15 + 16 May). The one that posted is the one on the right. Image
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3/ When I reverse image searched the picture I was inundated with dozens of pages from forums about romance scams asking about people using this same picture. A lot of people scammed out of thousands. Someone even asked on Quora about O'Connor! Image
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