DailyMail: Russian bots retweeted candidate Trump 500K times nearing election

[triron]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5321141/Russia-bots-retweeted-Trump-500K-times-nearing-election.html

Started day after Sessions had secret meeting with Kislyak.

[triron]

1. Also notably Trump got 10 times as many retweets as Clinton.

[dalton99a]

2. "the number of accounts is likely higher"

It's likely that the company didn't identify all of the Russia-linked bots, as 12 percent of all accounts hide their location.

That means the number of accounts that retweeted President Trump in the lead up to the election, or that retweeted Russian-linked accounts, is likely higher.

Additionally, those 50,000 bots are in addition to 3,814 accounts being run by the Internet Research Agency.

The Internet Research Agency is a Russian government-linked group whose purpose is to spread fake news which was based in St Petersburg. Many of its accounts were designed to look like they were being run by Americans, and often gained tens of thousands of followers, according to CNN.

[triron]

3. Thanks for this added info.

[world wide wally]

4. I'm sure it's just a coincidence...

Or fake news.

[triron]

5. kick for visibility

[RandomAccess]

6. More info --

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210153825