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Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/tech/twit...index.html
Quote:Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between a Native American elder and a group of high school students wearing Make America Great Again hats.
The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher. Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil, CNN Business found. Twitter suspended the account soon after CNN Business asked about it.
On Tuesday, a source familiar with Twitter's investigation into the account said the company's initial findings suggest that the account was run from the United States. The source cautioned, however, that determining which country a Twitter account is actually run from can be very difficult.
The account, with the username @2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweets of a woman named Talia living in California. "Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020," its Twitter bio read. Since the beginning of this year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers.
Late on Friday, the account posted a minute-long video showing the now-iconic confrontation between a Native American elder and the high school students, with the caption, "This MAGA loser gleefully bothering a Native American protester at the Indigenous Peoples March."
That version of the video was viewed at least 2.5 million times and was retweeted at least 14,400 times, according to a cached version of the tweet seen by CNN Business.
The video shared by @2020fight did not show what preceded the confrontation between the Native American elder and the high school students.
The video had been posted earlier on Instagram by someone who was at the event, but it was @2020fight's caption that helped frame the news cycle.
Rob McDonagh, an assistant editor at Storyful, a service that vets content online, was monitoring Twitter activity on Saturday morning and said the @2020fight video was the main version of the incident being shared on social media.
In one indicator of the @2020fight's video's virality, multiple newsrooms, including some national American outlets, reached out to the user asking them directly about the video.
McDonagh said he found the account suspicious due to its "high follower count, highly polarized and yet inconsistent political messaging, the unusually high rate of tweets, and the use of someone else's image in the profile photo."
Molly McKew, an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet and shared it herself on Saturday, said she later realized that a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.
Speaking about the nature of fake accounts on social media, McKew told CNN Business, "This is the new landscape: where bad actors monitor us and appropriate content that fits their needs. They know how to get it where they need to go so it amplifies naturally. And at this point, we are all conditioned to react and engage or deny in specific ways. And we all did."
Twitter's rules forbid users from creating "fake and misleading accounts," and shortly after CNN Business asked Twitter about the account, it was suspended.
A spokesperson for Twitter told CNN Business, "Deliberate attempts to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter by using misleading account information is a violation of the Twitter Rules."
The source familiar with Twitter's investigation told CNN Business the company's initial findings suggested the account was run from the US, but said it can be difficult to determine an account owner's actual location.
Twitter users can try to mask their true location using services like virtual private networks, which can allow users to appear as if they are in a different country.
CNN Business has not independently determined where this account was being run from.
CNN Business was unable to reach the person, or people, behind the account, to ask if they were indeed a California schoolteacher that chose to use someone else's picture. Soon after we pointed out on Twitter that the account was using a different woman's profile picture, the account blocked this reporter.
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
there's no reason the big boys need to be harnessed.....
all is well...
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01-22-2019 04:51 PM |
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
So, resident alt-leftists that constantly sky scream about Russian bots were duped not only by their insatiable appetite for faux-hate, but also by foreign propaganda.
Isn’t that just..
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
(01-22-2019 06:29 PM)Kronke Wrote: So, resident alt-leftists that constantly sky scream about Russian bots were duped not only by their insatiable appetite for faux-hate, but also by foreign propaganda.
Isn’t that just..
or billionaires....
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
Probably a twitter employee.
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
I will not be shocked to find out that this whole event was an orchestrated event with an orchestrated, precision distribution.
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01-22-2019 08:27 PM |
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
(01-22-2019 08:27 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: I will not be shocked to find out that this whole event was an orchestrated event with an orchestrated, precision distribution.
of course is contrived and orchestrated . Thr simple minded bite hard and scream reeeeeeeee
I just laugh
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
(01-22-2019 09:47 PM)shere khan Wrote: (01-22-2019 08:27 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: I will not be shocked to find out that this whole event was an orchestrated event with an orchestrated, precision distribution.
of course is contrived and orchestrated . Thr simple minded bite hard and scream reeeeeeeee
I just laugh
we live in fagoo land.....how can you not laugh, eh?
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
Twitter should be seized as a matter of national security.
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01-23-2019 09:32 PM |
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
(01-23-2019 09:32 PM)chargeradio Wrote: Twitter should be seized as a matter of national security.
The hellsite indeed. Would anyone cry if Twitter went away?
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
(01-22-2019 09:47 PM)shere khan Wrote: (01-22-2019 08:27 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: I will not be shocked to find out that this whole event was an orchestrated event with an orchestrated, precision distribution.
of course is contrived and orchestrated . Thr simple minded bite hard and scream reeeeeeeee
I just laugh
Priceless.
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TigerBlue4Ever
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
I can proudly say I am not a a twit.er...
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01-24-2019 09:00 AM |
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RE: Investigation into account that stared the Covington clusterf*ck
(01-23-2019 10:00 PM)atsKnight Wrote: (01-23-2019 09:32 PM)chargeradio Wrote: Twitter should be seized as a matter of national security.
The hellsite indeed. Would anyone cry if Twitter went away?
the stockholders
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