Anti-Clinton, anti-immigrant, Texit rallies across TX linked to Russia

[L. Coyote]

Shuttered Facebook group that organized anti-Clinton, anti-immigrant rallies across Texas was linked to Russia
Natasha Bertrand -- Sep. 13, 2017

A Russia-linked Facebook group attempted to organize a series of anti-immigrant, anti-Hillary Clinton rallies across Texas last November, three days before the election and months after Russian operatives used the social-media platform to organize an anti-refugee-resettlement protest in rural Idaho.

The group, called Heart of Texas, had over 225,000 followers as of last summer. It was shut down last week as part of Facebook's takedown of accounts and pages "affiliated with one another and likely operated out of Russia," a Facebook spokesman told Business Insider on Wednesday.

Casey Michel, a journalist who has spent years tracing US secession movements to Russia, tracked the group's activity throughout the election and determined it was more than just a platform for far-right Texas secessionists.

Several signs pointed to the page being a Russian influence operation, including a lack of contact information and ads, and a corresponding Twitter account created in November 2015 — right around the time Facebook experienced a surge in Russia-linked, fake accounts, Michel said. Its "about" section read only: "Texas's the land protected by Lord."

Perhaps the most revealing clue that Heart of Texas was not a project spearheaded by dissatisfied Texans was the language. The memes posted in the group contained typos, grammatical errors, and a general unfamiliarity with basic English phrases.

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And the Texit bots are still at it, same crap every day:

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[Iliyah]

1. They are behind most if not all of his racist, mean spirited rallies.

[Initech]

2. And it all comes back to Russia.

They are clearly trying to break up the United States. We need to get the adults back in charge and declare them an enemy of the state ASAP.