Twitter has suspended a group of fake accounts pretending to be owned by Black supporters of President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign. The micro-blogging platform said Tuesday the accounts breached its policies on spam and platform manipulation. The news was first reported by The Washington Post. Multiple fake accounts posted the same bogus language including the phrase: “YES IM BLACK AND IM VOTING FOR TRUMP!!!” Darren Linvill, an associate professor studying social media disinformation at Clemson University, worked with journalists at The Post on the story. He wrote on Twitter that trolls “are out there trying to influence our conversations before November.” Offending accounts appeared to use stolen photos of real people including military veterans and members of law enforcement in their profile pictures. Collectively, the accounts had 265,000 retweets or Twitter mentions. Some of them had amassed over 10,000 followers. Linvill told Reuters that most of the accounts were set up in 2017 and that they had become more active in the last couple of months. A Twitter spokesperson told CNBC: “Our teams are working diligently to investigate this activity and will take action in line with the Twitter Rules if Tweets are found to be in violation. Presently, we’ve taken action on some Tweets and accounts for violations of our policies on platform manipulation and spam.” Twitter is yet to say how many accounts it has suspended or who is behind them. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/twitter-suspends-fake-accounts-posing-as-black-trump-supporters.html https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54533488 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/13/black-fake-twitter-accounts-for-trump/ https://uk.reuters.com/article/usa-twitter-disinformation/twitter-suspends-accounts-for-spam-and-manipulation-that-claim-to-be-black-trump-supporters-idUKL1N2H4237 The right-wing sure loves their identity politics |
| 한 번만 살지만 제대로 하면 한 번이면 충분해요 |
| the bot wars are here again so ye election time is really here now here is some news in 2016 Twitter Bots May Have Boosted Donald Trump's Votes by 3.23%, Researchers Say https://time.com/5286013/twitter-bots-donald-trump-votes/ |
| Hahaha more trickery shut down. |
| I feel like this is trick that we constantly see from the Right-Wing....especially when literal CON-ARTISTS try it. Here, I'll give examples: Milo Yiannapolis: Oh look, it's a GAY guy, but he's right wing! And he's soooo GAY too! See, we like gays too! Nevermind the fact that Milo is constantly railing against Gay rights and involved with various White Nationalists and that movement. Blair White: Look, we have a Trans-woman who agrees with us! But, don't look at the fact that despite being Trans, she also loves to rail against other Trans people and Trans rights....furthermore, she has a HUGE audience on YouTube, mainly conservatives who see her as their TOKEN Trans person they can point to when needed....but of course she doesn't care because she has made so much money off of them. Selling out is too easy. Dave Rubin: Yet another gay dude who agrees with the Right-Wing! And this guy actually left a very popular Left Wing internet show because he supposedly saw just how radical they really were! Oh, but how coincidental, that it was later discovered that the reason he left was because he wanted a 6 figure salary for doing a 30 minute show when he wasn't that popular at the time. Later he got TONS of money from Prager U and the Koch Brothers to go on this crusade against the Left and how they HATE freedom of speech poor little Rubin just wanted to talk about "big ideas". Well, of course now everyone knows all of these GRIFTS. |
| I don't have a problem with this. I mean, those are blatant puppet accounts. It's not even the opinion of the user anymore. |
| I CELEBRATE myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. |
| I totally belive that if the republican party wins it is because more than 50% of the population don't care about electoral crime -Oh, wait, not 50%, because republicans never win the popular vote, they need the baby-sitter-college- |
| heh. |
| There will never be blacks for Trump. Doesn't matter if Kanye likes him or not. |
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