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Botany

(70,483 posts)
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 12:06 PM Oct 2017

Is Trump now retweeting a link to Russian bot farms with the NFL stand for the anthem stuff?

https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandForOurAnthem?src=hash


http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2017/09/29/why-twitter-bots-trolling-nfl-hashtags-take-knee-and-boycott-nfl/713455001/


Why Twitter bots are trolling NFL hashtags 'take a knee,' and 'boycott nfl'

INDIANAPOLIS – Pay close attention before getting into arguments with Twitter accounts pushing hashtags like #TakeAKnee or #boycottNFL.

The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan group aiming to "publicly document and expose Vladimir Putin’s ongoing efforts to subvert democracy," monitors 600 Twitter accounts it says are linked to Russia. And that group reported that hashtags like 'nfl,' 'takeaknee,' and 'boycottnfl' have recently been some of the most frequently used by those accounts.

Twitter executives discussed Russian interference in the 2016 election with heads from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center on Thursday. Sports chatter, in comparison, seems pretty harmless.
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Is Trump now retweeting a link to Russian bot farms with the NFL stand for the anthem stuff? (Original Post) Botany Oct 2017 OP
I cant accept our situation, but 50 million traitors, aka deplorable asshole Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #1
i tried to watch part of the Ohio state game yesterday and I had 2 trump heads .... Botany Oct 2017 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. I cant accept our situation, but 50 million traitors, aka deplorable asshole
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 12:08 PM
Oct 2017

teaparty republicans can.

grrrr

Botany

(70,483 posts)
2. i tried to watch part of the Ohio state game yesterday and I had 2 trump heads ....
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 12:14 PM
Oct 2017

.... next to me. Both the Ohio State and Rutgers team took a knee before the
game and you should have heard their howls of protest.

Trump/Russia/Fox/and so on really have gotten inot people's heads w/out and out
lies.

If anybody can't see Trump is trying to push a "culture war" issue and that he is doing
that in conjuction or under Russia orders then they are blind. W/the problems in the
the Caribbean islands now Trump had no reason to push this phony NFL/kneeling problem.

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