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Thought I'd have a look at the #/istandwithjkrowling trend. Got about 10k tweets down. Clearly the kpoppers are giving the terfs a good kicking, but I also noticed that nearly 15% of the tweets are registered by Twitter as Russian language.

Botvolution

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Jun 7, 2020

What's not clear is whether this means there's a lot of Russian terfs or a lot of Russian kpop stans lol

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If it helps, I have noticed a terf troll/bot operation out of Serbia.

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That is very interesting. How large is the bot network?

3:42 AM · Jun 8, 2020 from Pumphrey, MDTwitter for Android

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In the hundreds, from memory, but unfortunately I didn't save the details. I ran into it by studying some of the like-clicks on a TERF post and ending up with a bunch of Serbian-language accounts.

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OK, didn't take me too long to use the same technique to find a Russian troll with bot amplification: MurAnfisa But I really need to learn to hang on to and classify my findings better. Have lost the Serbian net for the moment.