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@conspirator0
Nov 1, 2017 • 12 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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After the terror attack in New York today, I went looking to see what propaganda #AltWankers were pushing in the aftermath.
It didn't take very long to find this tweet from Jack Posobiec tying the attack to the claim that antifa are being trained by ISIS.
So, I searched for tweets containing "antifa" and "training". Relevant activity goes back to January, with a huge spike in the last 2 days.
Tweet volume for tweets containing both "antifa" and "training". I marked the points when various dubious "news" sites were first linked.
Tweet/retweet relationships for antifa/training tweets. So far, Jack Posobiec is driving most of the traffic. #AltWankers
Jack joined the discussion yesterday, when Ed Klein published a book claiming that antifa are traveling abroad to be trained by ISIS.
Let's go back to January. First tweet I was able to locate on the topic - appears to be posted on behalf of Milo Yiannopolous. #AltWankers
Propaganda stories frequently appear earlier on 4chan than other sites. Police are the supposed antifa-trainers in this post from April.
Infowars got in on the action in late June, followed by Daily Caller at the end of July. #AltWankers
In early October fake news site yournewswire posts allegations of antifa being trained in Syria, followed soon thereafter by Pamela Geller.
Nobody can agree on who exactly is training antifa. Partisangirl, writer for both Infowars and New Eastern Outlook, blames the Kurdish YPG.
Footnote: New Eastern Outlook is produced by the Russian Academy of Sciences and has a decidedly anti-Western bias.

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Let's take an updated look at the traffic related to Russia Insider, a Russian news site featuring sections such as "Western Collapse", "The Jewish Question", "Free Assange", "Russiahoax", and "EU Conservative Uprising".
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Oct 6, 2018
While looking for streams of the Kavanaugh confirmation cloture vote yesterday, we stumbled on @Seekandfind, an account that linked Russia Today's stream. Spoiler alert - this account is (at least presently) a bot with signs of some human interjections.
This account is extremely high-volume (900+ tweets per day at present) and uses a massive cornucopia of different automation tools to tweet (mostly Microsoft PowerApps, Buffer, Integromat, IFTTT, and Zapier).
What does @Seekandfind tweet about? 37.1% of tweets contain one or more of the keywords shown in this chart - the Trump, Hillary Clinton, MSM/fake news, and deep state categories being the most prominent.
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Oct 5, 2018
On October 2nd, the news came out that envelopes containing suspected ricin had been mailed to the Pentagon and the White House. We downloaded tweets containing the word "ricin" a few hours after the news broke, resulting in 45007 tweets from 29308 accounts.
Here's the retweet network for "ricin" on 2018-10-02. It consists almost entirely of right wing accounts, most of which are speculating that the ricin mailing was left-wing terrorism.
We tested a sample of 10000 of the accounts with ricin tweets for automation (based on either 24/7 activity or 90%+ of tweets being posted via automation services/custom apps). 817 (8.2%) were flagged as bots. Let's look at a few of them.
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Oct 4, 2018
Yesterday (2018-10-02), four members of the white supremacist group known as the "Rise Above Movement" were arrested by the feds for their part in the violence at the #UniteTheRight rally in Charlottesville in August 2018. Let's take a look at related Twitter traffic.
(previous thread on the Twitter activity surrounding the #UniteTheRight hashtag leading up to and during the rally last year.)
We downloaded tweets containing "Charlottesville" and "arrests", resulting in 15082 tweets from 12331 accounts beginning with the first report of the arrests (from @HenryGraff).
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Sep 30, 2018
How does one go about detecting Twitter bots (automated accounts)? Let's take a look at three different tests for detecting signs of automation, and try them on three different sample sets of accounts.
The first two tests may be familiar from previous threads:

1. 24/7 tweet activity - this could point to multiple human operators, but is usually the result of automation/tweet scheduling.
2. Use of automation services such as IFTTT or custom apps built with the Twitter API.
The tweet schedule plots shown in the previous tweet can be used to visually perform both these tests. You can generate them yourself for accounts of interest here: makeadverbsgreatagain.org/allegedly
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