Fascinating/unsettling seeing pro-Trump media, Russian bots, a few Congressional Republicans, and Trump's online fans turn a memo by a disgraced recused-then-unrecused Congressman into proof of a grand conspiracy. Not coordination. Each acts independently. Overlapping interests.
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Nicholas Grossman Retweeted Sonny Bunch
To give you an idea of the ridiculousness, a tweet from a fake account with the name "Rep. Charles Ponzi (R)"--yes, that Ponzi--calling to release the memo got over 6,500 retweets.https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/954341905617256448 …
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And here's evidence of Russia's role. The 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations tracked by the Alliance for Securing Democracy devoted almost all their energy over the last 48 hours to the hashtag
#ReleaseTheMemo.pic.twitter.com/La8s8LMMkM
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I bet before Feinstein and Schiff had ABC put this letter out, it was about 2 percent Russian.
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The activity from accounts linked to Russian influence operations was much larger before Feinstein and Schiff's statement than after. However, though it's tough to measure the exact amount of activity, the Russian-linked accounts were definitely a minority of the total.
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