Senior OSINT Analyst at @ISDGlobal, investigator at @Cen4infoRes. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own.
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This network seems to be big but crude. The accounts are an eclectic mix of join dates, handles and personas which are mostly* not tailored to pro-Trump activity. This is pretty typical of crypto or spam networks, which tend to be cobbled together out of accounts like this. 
As @VSquare_Project and others have reported, the SDA’s operation includes a “bot farm” generating millions of posts and thousands of memes and videos. I suspect this is what I’ve found.
immediately tweeted 100+ times in support of the Democrats and then posted this thing about the sperm cups 
For at least seven years, the pro-CCP influence campaign known as Spamouflage (unless you're Google and insist on calling it Dragonbridge) has been infamous among researchers for two things: its enormous scale, and its almost complete ineffectiveness.
A network of ~60 accounts have been targeting Russian opposition figures @Navalny, @Pevchikh and @ACF_int in a sustained harassment campaign. 
‘Spamouflage’ is a name commonly used by researchers to refer to a sprawling set of accounts across multiple platforms sharing narratives which support the interests of the CCP. Parts of this activity are attributed by the platforms to Chinese state-linked actors.
At this point we’re all pretty well aware that there is a thriving cottage industry in fake news and commercially-driven disinformation emanating from Macedonia – particularly from a small town called Veles. Keep that in mind as we go. 
Trying to share an NYT article via URL 
