Hundreds of newly created Twitter accounts pushed #ReleaseTheMemo
Well, Sen. Ron Johnson sure made a fool of himself over this issue.
Hundreds of newly created Twitter accounts pushed #ReleaseTheMemo
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/24/media/releasethememo-twitter-accounts/index.html?sr=twCNN012418releasethememo-twitter-accounts0553PMStory
by Donie O'Sullivan @CNNMoney January 24, 2018: 5:44 PM ET
#releasethememo
The viral hashtag campaign #ReleaseTheMemo appears to have been driven at least in part by a swarm of Twitter accounts set up in the past week, a CNN analysis has found.
More than 1,000 accounts that were set up between Thursday -- when the hashtag first appeared -- and Sunday night have tweeted the hashtag. 460 of those were what are known as "egg accounts," accounts that don't even have a profile picture. About 200 of the accounts had sent only four or fewer tweets by Sunday night, with at least one of those featuring the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag.
The memo in question is a document spearheaded by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. It details what it alleges are FBI surveillance abuses during the 2016 election. While some Republicans and Trump supporters in the House and outside of it want the memo to be made public, Democrats say it's misleading, and an effort to torpedo special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign.
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Software developed by the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy showed that #ReleaseTheMemo was one of the talking points being pushed most frequently on Thursday and throughout the weekend by a group of Twitter accounts it believes to be part of "Russian-linked influence networks" on the platform. ....................................
Much of the hashtag's virality was due to legitimate, organic activity. Republican lawmakers, prominent conservative media figures and the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., all helped the hashtag trend with their own tweets. One tweet from Rep. Mark Meadows, who said he had read the memo and described it as "shocking," was retweeted almost 50,000 times. Media coverage also likely played a role as well. ...............................
Link to tweet
= new reply since forum marked as read
I didn't dare click the link because it could be a malware site. They give no indication what the webpage is. It is a secret domains.
Is there a #Resistance bot army now? This is the message now swarming:
Domain Information = onpolitica.com
Registrar: NameSilo, LLC
Registration Date: 2018-01-10
Organization: See PrivacyGuardian.org
Street: 1928 E. Highland Ave. Ste F104 PMB# 255
City: Phoenix AZ
Precisely the same tweet points to another secret domain, registered the same day:
Domain Information = hillpress.org
Registrar: Namesilo, LLC
Registration Date: 2018-01-10
Organization: PrivacyGuardian.org
Any bets on whether the bot army is using these domain name servers? Nice to see such lovely young bots
Lyuda_#TheResistance
Diana_#TheResistance
Ana Fise #resist
Milana_#TheResistance