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To: Fedora

Jonathon Morgan of New Knowledge helped create Hamilton 68... which brings this up:

Russian bots promote pro-gun messages after Florida school shooting, CNN ^
CNN)Russia-linked bots are promoting pro-gun messages on Twitter in an attempt to sow discord in the aftermath of the Florida school shooting, monitoring groups say. Hashtags, topics, and URLs related to the shooting overwhelmingly feature in the tweets pushed by these automated Twitter accounts in the past 48 hours, according to Hamilton 68, a tool launched by the Alliance for Securing Democracy to track what it describes as “Russian propaganda and disinformation efforts online.” The Alliance is a group housed at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) think tank to “defend against, deter, and raise the costs... https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/us/russian-bots-florida-shooting-intl/index.html

Which makes it possible if not probable that these so-called Russian bots with pro-gun messages may have been Democrat operatives- just as they were in the Alabama special election.


12 posted on 01/10/2019 11:47:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Well that’s interesting. . .


13 posted on 01/11/2019 12:02:58 AM PST by Fedora
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