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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Got a Big Social Media Boost from Indian Troll Farms
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Joe Biden's Twitter account got a sizable boost beginning in August from tens of thousands of fake followers purchased on the open market from troll farms in rural India, an investigation has found.

Within two weeks of Biden selecting Kamala Harris as his running mate on August 12, his Twitter following jumped by 738,595 new followers—a 9.1 percent leap. The number hit 11 million by the third week of October.

A close examination has revealed unusual patterns. A large number of Twitter accounts that followed Biden's appear to have been created exclusively for that purpose. And a large number of the users are located in small towns in rural India—in places where English-speakers are rare, and from handles run by people who don't speak English as their first language, nor appear to be genuinely invested in American politics.

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Some of the operators who worked on the campaign spoke at length about how propaganda agencies in New Delhi and Mumbai activated a widely distributed troll network to amplify Biden's campaign impact on Twitter.

In discussions over the Telegram app, Harshit Patel and Yajpal Yadav discussed the part they played...............................

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamal...ms-1544047
11-02-2020 01:50 PM
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So RWT is Indian?
11-02-2020 03:21 PM
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Just imagine how many new Indian followers he’d gotten if he’d picked Fauxcahontas instead of the fake black ho
11-02-2020 03:24 PM
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(11-02-2020 03:24 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Just imagine how many new Indian followers he’d gotten if he’d picked Fauxcahontas instead of the fake black ho

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11-02-2020 03:45 PM
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We need an investigation into India meddling in our election!!!!
India, India, India!!!!!
11-02-2020 05:03 PM
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