#Astroturf

Devin Burghart

dburghart

Clinging to the notion of #COVID19 insurrectionist groups as “Astroturf” is understandable, but wrong. I get it’s terrifying to think that there are 1.3 million Americans so anxious that they’re

Patrick Stokes

patstokes

If you're reading this thread and you've not seen SovCit/FotL before, all the stuff about crowns and oaths and homophones seems random. What holds it all together (apart from self-interest)

Pedro L. Gonzalez

emeriticus

People don't want to believe that a great deal of normal Americans hate other Americans fundamentally, so the astroturf angle is emphasized. The Left tells us exactly what they are

Chuck Monan aka The Pigskin Preacher

monan_chuck

Idle thoughts watching Game 1 of 1980 @Royals-@Phillies WS:>This features two of best 3rd basemen ever in Schmidt & Brett.>Amos Otis was really underrated.>Willie Mays Aikens...oh, what might’ve been.>There was

Botometer

Botometer

Since we launched Botometer v4 a week ago (http://botometer.org ), we have seen a few tweets about the changes. Complaints tend to focus on accounts that get a higher score compared

M. Ali Dogan

alidogan_uk

Who actually voted for @Keir_Starmer? Let's be having you... People with #FPBE in their name telling us we should respect the democracy of the leadership contest. Har... har... har... A

kennyog

kennyog

Some interesting behaviours in response to yesterday's open letter from 300+ scientists calling for decentralised Corona tracking apps. Lots of people being e-mailed asking them to change their minds. Grassroots

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"Trump team propagandists preemptively invert narratives so if you tell the truth, people link it to conspiracies. If you brought up Epstein's pedophile trafficking operation in 2017, people would dismiss

Kate Starbird

katestarbird

A sparse view of the retweet network of "Stop the Steal” tweets (edges = 10 RTs by one account of another), so only shows common trajectories of information flow gives

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

cheryllynneaton

Every series with a male lead character and showrunner should now be called "male-centric."https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1253057500850470912 I know that they probably threw out the phrase "female-centric" to head trolls off

Starte Firer

Anonylyzer13

1of6#CIA asset, @amnesty, Chinese International School "teacher" #BrianPatrickKernGreat idea! Lets change fist to open hand that's how people will *know* that movement is NOT #Astroturf! #HongKong =#ColorRevolution #OTPOR #OF

Rupert Myers

RupertMyers

Deeply suspicious of this “astroturf” story - what proof do we have that it isn’t a foreign power trying to embarrass our own government by making it look like they

Resist Line 3

ResistLine3

Let's talk about Minnesotans for Line 3, the propaganda arm of @Enbridge's #Line3 expansion project. (1/10) Minnesotans for Line 3 (M4L3) was founded in 2018 by the late Bob

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. When I saw the inorganic Reopen movement quickly evolve into armed threats in #Michigan, starting around April, its apparent coordination with a similar Reopen push from Trump made me

Adam H. Johnson

adamjohnsonNYC

The Pelosi Ice Cream thing wasn’t, of course, about ice cream, and it wasn’t full blown Marie Antoinette but it captured the tonal aloofness of dem leadership & a key

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

One completely anecdotal observation I would make is that this week the originalists seem more defensive and afraid of losing the argument than anytime I remember. There's bot-ish activity around