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Today I tweeted something negative about a famous Republican.
Within minutes, I had received 30 tweet replies from bot accounts, they'd all been created in the past 4 months, with broken English usernames and fewer than 5 followers.
The Russian disinformation campaign is real.
Within minutes, I had received 30 tweet replies from bot accounts, they'd all been created in the past 4 months, with broken English usernames and fewer than 5 followers.
The Russian disinformation campaign is real.
They're tracking mentions of specific phrases/keywords/topics, and then bombarding those tweets with hostile replies and unrelated hashtags.
This is how they seek to undermine our elections and spread propaganda, by re-repeating talking points on other people's threads, hoping
This is how they seek to undermine our elections and spread propaganda, by re-repeating talking points on other people's threads, hoping
that the victims will reply to their hostile tweets, and thereby amplify their propaganda to more and more and more people.
If you see someone posting pro-Trump bullshit, DO NOT REPLY. DO NOT GIVE THEM MORE OXYGEN.
Just block them and move on.
If you see someone posting pro-Trump bullshit, DO NOT REPLY. DO NOT GIVE THEM MORE OXYGEN.
Just block them and move on.
I deleted the tweet, not because I don't stand by what I said, but because I simply don't have TIME to report-and-block all the Republican bots today. Why? BECAUSE IT'S TACO TUESDAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
And now, here's an important thread about why we progressives have one main reason to vote for #BidenHarris: https://twitter.com/RichardCheese/status/1305875977780699136?s=20
