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Termin8tor » 26 Jan 2018 7:04 pm » wrote:Russian BOTS! Russian BOTS!
They're taking over the country! Flying in your window!
And as usual, it's just a coincidence that the corrupt Democrat Party was pushing this Democrat Talking Point Lie, too.
Which you've sworn you never tell!

Twitter Pins #ReleaseTheMemo on Republicans, Not Russia
Despite claims the Kremlin is driving a campaign to disclose an anti-FBI memo, a source says an early in-house analysis concludes the hashtag has been mostly pushed by Americans.
The online groundswell urging the release of House Republicans’ attacks on the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears thus far to be organically American—not Russian propaganda, a source familiar with Twitter’s internal analysis told The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/source-tw ... via=mobile

#ReleaseTheMemo is the top-trending hashtag among Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that says it tracks Russian propaganda in near-real time.

Hamilton 68 has been working to expose trolls — as well as automated bots and human accounts — whose main use for Twitter appears to be an amplification of pro-Russia themes.

The site's mission is to monitor and illustrate the themes that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Americans to be thinking and talking about, including "the failure of democratic governance in the United States."

Bret Schafer, a communications coordinator at the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy who tracks the Hamilton 68 accounts, said he "certainly can't remember" the last time the researchers had seen a topic "promoted to this level" by the Russia-linked bots and trolls.

"On a normal day, our top hashtag is typically used around 400 times in a 48-hour period by the network we track," he said in an email on Friday.

"As of right now, #ReleaseTheMemo has been used over 3,000 times (and five other related hashtags are in the top 10)," he said.

"In total, they've easily shared more than 4,500 hashtags on the topic in the past two days, and our top URL is Assange's offer to pay for a copy of the memo.

That certainly seems to be a sign of a coordinated effort by the bots and trolls."

http://www.businessinsider.com/release- ... nts-2018-1

A new website is attempting to track the spread of Russian propaganda and themes on Twitter in real time.

The project is an attempt to undermine Russia's disinformation campaign in the United States and the West more broadly.

Researchers are continously monitoring roughly 600 Twitter accounts "selected for their relationship to Russian-sponsored influence and disinformation campaigns."

http://www.businessinsider.com/russian- ... ker-2017-8