The curious case of 'Nicole Mincey'
By Abby Phillip August 7 at 7:22 PM
Early Saturday .. Trump tweeted his gratitude to .. super-fan, Nicole Mincey ...
There is no evidence the Twitter feed belongs to someone named Nicole Mincey. And the account, according to experts, bears a lot of signs of a Russia-backed disinformation campaign.
On Sunday, Twitter suspended the Mincey account .. after .. other users revealed that it was probably a fake ...
"Nineteen to 20 percent of the messages in the month before the election were originated by bots," said Emilio Ferrara, a researcher at the University of Southern California who conducted research on the impact of bots on the 2016 election. "About 400,000 accounts that posted tweets related to the political conversation we believe were bots" ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-curious-case-of-nicole-mincey-the-trump-fan-who-may-actually-be-a-russian-bot/2017/08/07/7aa67410-7b96-11e7-9026-4a0a64977c92_story.html?utm_term=.df8eb0c772b2
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