Twitter removed a fake account for policy violations, pretending to be a Black Dem who switched to GOP

— It had 15,000 followers
—Only tweeted a few times—all this month https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/26/race-divisions-highlighted-disinformation-2016/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolog...
Black voters are being targeted in disinformation campaigns, echoing the 2016 Russian playbook

Four years after Russian operatives used social media in a bid to exacerbate America’s racial divisions and suppress Black voting, such tactics have spread to a wide range of disinformation ahead of...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/26/race-divisions-highlighted-disinformation-2016/
The account, @/WentDemtoRep, posted a testimonial Sunday — the eve of a RNC featuring prominent African Americans challenging allegations of racism against Trump — and was retweeted 22,000 times.

the fake tweet had 39,000 likes
19 hours after it was posted
The rapid spread of the tweet shows how easily deceptive messages spread online — and how far they can get before social media companies are able to curb them.

#emotionalcontagion
Racial appeals and a focus on American racial unrest have been part of recent disinformation campaigns emanating from Iran, China, Russia and Romania.
Russia’s IRA, which U.S. officials indicted in 2018 for attempts to manipulate the 2016 election, borrowed heavily from the Soviet-era strategy of seeking to exploit American racial division to deepen unrest during the civil rights movement and after. https://twitter.com/lululemew/status/1264204769066917888?s=12">https://twitter.com/lululemew...
Russian operatives portraying themselves as Black Americans — using account names such as “Blacktivist” and “BlackMattersUS” — were among the most prolific fake accounts used during 2016 and in the early months of the Trump admin before they were exposed https://twitter.com/lululemew/status/1266149412453191682?s=12">https://twitter.com/lululemew...
“The IRA created an expansive cross-platform media mirage targeting the Black community, which shared and cross-promoted authentic Black media to create an immersive influence ecosystem,” Sen Intel Cmte report on Russian disinfo, 2018. https://twitter.com/lululemew/status/1280701380299239426?s=12">https://twitter.com/lululemew...
All but one of the 50 most widely retweeted posts by the Internet Research Agency were from fake accounts purporting to belong to Black Americans, according to Clemson University researchers Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren.
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Some IRA posts directly urged Black voters to skip the election, such as a Facebook ad on Election Day targeting those with an interest in civil rights, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
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