Devin Nunes asked Russian bots to help make an article discrediting the Russia investigation 'go vir

[applegrove]

Michal Kranz at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/devin-nunes-asked-russian-bots-on-twitter-to-get-an-article-to-go-viral-2018-2

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Rep. Devin Nunes, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, sent a tweet on Wednesday in which he sarcastically called on Russian bots to help an article he had linked to go viral.

"Catch up on mainstream media Russian conspiracy theories in this piece by @FDRLST PS-If you are a Russian Bot please make this go viral PSS-If you're not a Russian Bot you will become one if you retweet," Nunes tweeted.

The Russian bots Nunes is referring to are Twitter accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian organization that stood at the center of the multifaceted effort by groups close to the Russian state and President Vladimir Putin to interfere in the 2016 US election. Special counsel Robert Mueller handed down a detailed indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities last week, including the IRA, for "violating US criminal laws in order to interfere with US elections and political processes."

Multiple US intelligence agencies that investigated Russian meddling in the US election have concluded that the interference did take place. Mueller's indictment casts further light on this interference operation, and points specifically to the IRA as a hub from which hundreds of fake accounts were used to divide the American public and sow political discord online.

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[ck4829]

1. If you use Twitter...

Link to tweet

[kimbutgar]

2. Cant twitter figure out which accounts come from east europe?

You’d think when they saw all these tweets with the same content coming from a specific location they would block them. That’s why I won’t use twitter.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Funny, Traitor.

Resign.