Russia-linked Twitter accounts are working overtime to help Devin Nunes and WikiLeaks

[Fummel]

Source: Business Insider

Republican lawmakers are pushing for the House Intelligence Committee to release a memo written by the panel's chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, that outlines purported surveillance against then President-elect Donald Trump by former President Barack Obama's administration during the transition period.

And Russia-linked Twitter bots have jumped on the bandwagon.

#ReleaseTheMemo is the top-trending hashtag among Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that claims to track Russian propaganda in near-real time.

The frequency with which the accounts have been promoting the hashtag has spiked by 233,000% over the past 48 hours, according to the site. The accounts' references to the "memo," meanwhile, have increased by 68,000%.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/release-the-memo-campaign-russia-linked-twitter-accounts-2018-1

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Twitter is doing nothing to prevent Putin's troll army from making any hashtag and topic they want trend on Twitter.
No wonder #ReleaseTheMemo was trending earlier.

[iluvtennis]

1. Yep, twitter could shut it down if they wanted to. Besides, this Nunes memo is nonsense as it has

already been proven by intelligence agencies that there was no surveillance

This is all to DISTRACT from the Mueller investigation

[WhiteTara]

7. Specifically to keep Mueller from investigating

his treason. He's in this up to his vineyard.

[lark]

2. Congress needs to make new laws against what FB and now especially Twitter are doing.

They are fostering the destruction of our democracy for personal profit and this must stop.

[SergeStorms]

5. Absolutely.

Tell them, "either you police your damned 'social media' site or we'll do it for you!" I doubt the GOP would agree to do anything until after the mid-terms, if then. It's too big a tool in their arsenal of dirty tricks.

[Turbineguy]

3. Gee, with all that help from the Russians.....

Nunes has nothing to worry about.

Well, other than being investigated for not being FARA registered and treason.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment....

[highplainsdem]

6. K&R