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Posted on 08/24/2018 2:22:01 PM PDT by Drew68
Russian bots pushed out tweets about the death of Mollie Tibbets, the University of Iowa student who was missing for several weeks, just after the news broke regarding the verdict of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of the president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, according to a new report.
The Independent reports that bots believed to be linked with Russia began posting about Tibbets’ death just minutes after Manafort was found guilty on eight counts of fraud on Tuesday.
The tweets were analyzed by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a group that is known for tracking Russian-linked accounts, and found that “thousands” of tweets were being sent on Tuesday as the news of Manafort and Cohen—whose plea may have implicated President Donald Trump—became widespread.
The #MollieTibbetts hashtag was shared the most among Russia-linked accounts on Tuesday, according to the Independent.
Tibbets’ death became a lightning rod earlier this week after it was discovered that her suspected murderer, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, is believed to be an undocumented immigrant. His attorney has disputed those claims
The widespread push of the Tibbets story as the news of Cohen and Manafort came out may not be an accident, the Independent reports.
“But I do think there is also some sort of distraction element as well,” Bret Schafer, a social media analyst for the Alliance for Securing Democracy, told the news outlet. “They’re discussing Mollie Tibbetts instead of Paul Manafort, and they’re shining a light on her death in a way we rarely see.”
You can read all of the Independent‘s report here.
It didn’t even have to rise to that. Look at the childish reactions they had over Charlottesville when their side attacked a young kid and he hit the panic button.
And he didn’t even mean to kill a woman playing hooky from work who had zero business being there
there’s a Red under my bed
LMAO.
It was Russian bots who told that Mexican to turn himself in and show the police the body of his victim on the same day the Manafort and Cohen news was breaking.
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Bagster
Do not be alarmed, citizen.
It's just your foot.
Bagster
Show the evidence.
Russia would be anti-Trump and anti-Republican.
The Democrats were their traditional friends.
Alliance for Securing Democracy is run by former CIA spooks.
Russian Bots made ate all my ice cream!!!
Damn those Russian bots!
(This is beyond ridiculous)
Wouldn’t know.
I don’t follow twitter or tweets.
Who’s got the dog meme?
Russian bots are Everywhere.
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Are they stating anything that’s untrue? I’d rather decide that for myself rather than delegate it to Microsoft or Google.
Anything pro-Trump or anti-left is now called “Russian propaganda” and blocked. The left has found their mechanism for performing full censorship.
It goes much deeper than this. It’s my belief the Russians pushed Americans to buy the Ford Pinto and Chevy Vega in the 1970”s.
Yes...but you should really relish the experience of reading about her death in the original Klingon!
He didn’t even injure her, some reports say he didn’t hit her...she died of a heart attack as I’ve read of the reports. That’s why we’ve heard so little of the case way over a year out...he’ll probably get time served.
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