Russian Operatives Sent 18,000 Tweets on Day BEFORE Wiki-Leak

[Stallion]

coordination?


On the eve of one of the newsiest days of the 2016 presidential election season, a group of Russian operatives fired off tweets at a furious pace, about a dozen each minute. By the time they finished, more than 18,000 had been sent through cyberspace toward unwitting American voters, making it the busiest day by far in a disinformation operation whose aftermath is still roiling U.S. politics.

The reason for this burst of activity on Oct. 6, 2016, documented in a new trove of 3 million Russian tweets collected by Clemson University researchers, is a mystery that has generated intriguing theories but no definitive explanation.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russian-operatives-blasted-18000-tweets-ahead-of-a-huge-news-day-during-the-2016-presidential-campaign-did-they-know-what-was-coming/ar-BBKSvu1?ocid=spartandhp

[world wide wally]

1. No impact on the election whatsoever

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. They only spent a couple hundred mill...

Why would/wouldn’t they expect to have any effect on the election?

Cheaters.

[NBachers]

2. What a mystery! Why would they do such a thing? I can't think of a reason why . . .