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still_one

(98,883 posts) Sun Jul 8, 2018, 06:48 PM Jul 2018

Founder of anti-Democrat Twitter movement pushed by Russian bots denied service at New York electron [View all]

"Conservative and Russian media outlets began amplifying Brandon Straka’s #WalkAway campaign after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a pro-LGBT equality restaurant in Virginia. It gained further steam after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was mischaracterized by the right as inducing violence. The campaign was pushed by a series of sketchy Twitter accounts identified by some as bots that have worked to divide Democratic voters apart for the upcoming 2018 election by “walking away” from the Democratic Party.

But Straka had his own (Sarah) Sanders moment at a large Manhattan electronics store, according to The Epoch Times

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/founder-twitter-movement-pushed-russian-bots-denied-service-new-york-electronics-store/