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 are using bots, to create a seeming false equivalence between the U.K. and, say, Russia? Govt clearly denying this https://twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1252266724449230848

Also see this & his other tweets https://twitter.com/joshfeldberg/status/1252488256186433536?s=21 https://twitter.com/joshfeldberg/status/1252488256186433536

What’s to stop me setting up accounts pretending to be NHS doctors/nurses & getting them to tweet that we should take the coronavirus “on the chin” in a badly & obviously coordinated way, so armchair detectives will have tweets go madly viral suggesting it’s a government plot?

I don’t trust the source https://twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1086710621322780672?s=21 https://twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1086710621322780672