About Those Anti-Vax Tweets

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Link to tweet

Tweet: Many are still unaware that many blonde women from Texas with names like Carol or Joanna fighting vaccines on Twitter are in reality some fellow called Boris, who, from a drab Soviet era building, runs dozens of such accounts using fake I.P. addresses in North Macedonia.

[IronLionZion]

1. They supplement real American assholes named Tucker or Candace

[uponit7771]

2. The SM outlets have ways of filtering these sources out for Vaccines but aren't MADE to do it. They

... bullshit congress by acting like they don't have the resources and are bold faced lying.

[Quakerfriend]

4. This! n/t

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10. More From Taleb Confirming Your Observation

Link to tweet

Tweet: Some report of troll farms by MIT Tech Review.
But there is tons of stuff coming. We'll have discussions on
@Snowden soon.


SM thrives on "traffic". If you removed all the bots there would be a lot less "traffic". SM compony annual reports, therefore, would report a lot less (actual) traffic and we all know what that would do to their advertising rates & stock prices.

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. What difference does it make?

Opposition to the COVID vaccine is strongly associated with party affiliation. Are the fake white Texan women on Twitter creating this opposition, or merely encouraging it? Seems like the latter.

[FakeNoose]

5. The fake twitter accounts all seem to "like" each other and "follow" each other too

... just to make themselves seem like real people. But they're not.

They should be kicked off Twitter and Instagram, and we know they'll never be banned from Facebook.

[Initech]

6. No doubt Russia is behind this shit.

[pazzyanne]

9. Same playbook Russia used during the 2016 election.

Facebook, twitter, and other social media posts by Russian trolls shared by stopid Americans.

[jmbar2]

7. The report he references is fascinating

Our democracy is, and has been, under heavy information warfare attack for several years. Yesterday's release of Bernard Kerik's "Strategic Communications Plan" outlines how such attacks are planned by domestic actors.

This report lays out how they work.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/


Information warfare of this type is widely used by Russia, and adopted by right wingers in the lead up to the 2016 elections. Bannon, along with Cambridge Analytica, adapted and applied the strategies to kill democracy in the US.

We need to understand how to get out in front of these tactics on an ongoing basis. For my small part, I battle the bots on a stock traders forum by quickly unmasking them, and getting them booted.

[ShazamIam]

8. Yes and why the media is claiming Rs will win in 2022, fake turffed support which does provide cover

story for culling ballots to match the fake support storm.