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TRAVIS GETTYS
29 MAY 2017 AT 12:44 ET
A two-year-old report on Obamas secret outreach to Russia hit the top spot on the conservative Drudge Report after hundreds of bot accounts flooded Twitter with links to the article.
The report published Dec. 31, 2014, by Bloomberg View outlines the Obama administrations behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts to improve relations with Russia, which were spearheaded by then-Secretary of State John Kerry and included input from several Cabinet-level agencies.
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The original Bloomberg report largely disappeared from Twitter after interest died down a few weeks after its publication, but it began recirculating over the weekend.
Two posts appeared to have been shared directly from the Bloomberg site early Saturday morning and Sunday evening, but then a deluge of posts using the same phrasing and tags burst forth starting at 12:48 a.m. and continuing every two or three minutes for the next 11 hours.
Many of those accounts, at least in the early hours of the social media push, display the distinctive traits of bots with highly unbalanced posting-to-followers ratios, inscrutable account names, few public interactions and almost no original content phrasing.
The report gained traction later in the morning, as the report found its way into more apparently human accounts.
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(47,209 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)right-wing operatives in America doing to same to round up any Republican dogies thinking of straying from the herd?
Next step is for loyal followers reading this to email it out to friends, through which means it will multiply and spread exponentially. Private, "occult" emails are a huge way political lies are disseminated. The bigger the lie and the more enjoyably entertaining, the more eagerly shared.