This was obvious with the #ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
The key word here is "mirror." Russian bots, pro-Trump professional media, some GOP Congressman (Nunes, Gaetz, King, etc.) and Trump supporters on social media weren't coordinating. Just all independently saying the same thing.https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/963429691666419714 …
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During the election, Russian bots were inflaming people on the edges of both right and left. It's not just a right thing. Also, these posts don't get traction unless a lot of real people share them:https://gizmodo.com/here-are-14-russian-ads-that-ran-on-facebook-during-the-1820052443 …
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I wrote about that. Also, we published an article in Arc showing how Russian bots and trolls were playing both sides of the kneeling NFL players issue. But that doesn't change what they were doing in the case of Nunes' memo.
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