Gateway Pundit bots are out pushing a recycled narrative about Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

[kpete]

Gateway Pundit bots are out tonight pushing a recycled narrative about Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

We were recently made aware that @alhousedems had received a barrage of unexpected followers that look like bots. Scrolling through the recent followers, this does indeed appear to be the case. (Thanks @DePoInLa and @bweaver!)





(FYI: The Gateway Pundit story is blaming the Obama administration for the fact that Natalia Veselnitskaya was in the US... because apparently it's Obama's fault that the Trump campaign was conspiring with a Russian spy to get dirt on Hillary Clinton)

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[Squinch]

1. Once upon a time, not very long ago, we all managed to live without Twitter or Facebook,

and these bots had no way of trying to brainwash us.

Hmmmmm....

[honest.abe]

2. +1

[dalton99a]

3. Looks like the factory in St. Petersburg ran an extra shift

[Hav]

4. Twitter could easily prevent this

When you can create tens of thousands of accounts in hours, then you either have a lot of cheap labor, or they have automated it. If it's not manual labour, either Twitter allows it by providing services for that, or their sign up over their actual site doesn't check for human users. Seems to me that Twitter could prevent this. Even if they allow account creation that can be automated via services, I don't see the need of allowing that for thousands of accounts.