Hashtag #IStandWithLaura top trending for Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence campaigns

[Miles Archer]

About a dozen companies have pulled their advertising from Laura Ingraham's Fox News show, but hundreds of Russian bots have come to her aid.

The hashtag #IStandWithLaura was the top trending hashtag for Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence campaigns, according to Hamilton 68, Business Insider reported. Hamilton 68 is a dashboard hosted by Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan transatlantic national security group that monitors 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations.

The site recorded a 2,800 percent increase in the hashtag's use on Friday and Saturday. On Friday, Ingraham announced on her show The Ingraham Angle that she'll be taking a week off from the program for a preplanned spring vacation with her children.

That announcement came amid backlash over a tweet Ingraham posted that mocked David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in February, for not getting accepted to some of the colleges he applied to.

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[Roland99]

1. Why can they not just delete all those accounts?

[riversedge]

2. damn. just damn!

[gratuitous]

3. I wonder if they'll still stand with Laura in the unemployment line?

Just kidding; of course they won't.

[poboy2]

4. This is commonly referred to as a FORCE MULTIPLIER in an INFORMATION WAR.

In this case it is a foreign agency in the conspiracy.