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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian Trolls Promoted Trump While Trashing Black Lives Matter On Twitter
By SAM THIELMAN Published SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 4:36 PM
When a Russian troll farm was fishing for Trump supporters on Twitter, it baited the hook by targeting minority activists and public figures.
TPM has reviewed tweets and images from a pro-Trump Twitter account run by the Russian troll farm that likely purchased $100,000 worth of political ads on Facebook. Among the accounts favorite targets during the 2016 campaign season were Michelle Obama, undocumented immigrants and antiracist activist movement Black Lives Matter.
The since-suspended account, @tpartynews, had about 22,000 followers and was run out of a St. Petersburg company called the Federal News Agency (FAN), according to the authors of a report on the agency that ran in March in a major Russian business magazine, RBC. Twitter did not respond by press time to multiple requests for comment; Talking Points Memo will update this piece if they return those requests.
In a blog post about the Russians political ad spend on Facebook, the companys chief security officer, Alex Stamos, observed that the ads and accounts identified as being linked to the $100,000 buy appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.
Twitter appears to have been a target of the same campaign, and the tenor of the @tpartynews account seems to fit with Stamoss description.
The account promoted Donald Trumps campaign events genericallyMassive line for #TrumpWA in #Everett!, it tweeted on Aug. 30, 2016but it also managed to work in anti-BLM sentiment wherever it could.
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Russian Trolls Promoted Trump While Trashing Black Lives Matter On Twitter (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. 99.99999999999999% of accusations about BLM are not true, never were.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)2. yet accusations
flew around here hot and heavy......we all know who the majority accusers/slanderers were. And, I damn sure know who slandered and accused, here. Goes without saying....