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https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1081765878541283328 A fascinating thread ...dont think 4 a minute that the only propaganda / misinformation campaigns come from Russia ... there are plenty of domestic operations going on right now. In this case a Wall Street Hedge Fund manager posing as a #Bernie2020 acolyte

#infosec As @HoarseWisperer alertly posted, this Hedge Fund manager is running a disinfo / troll campaign against @ewarren and her supporters. If ur reasonably intelligent, I think you can figure out why a wallstreet Hedge Fund manager might be behind promoting #Bernie2020

#opsec #osint No idea right now how much of the "we want Bernie" tweets to @ewarren are from trolls, cyborgs and bots. Guessing like ourselves lots of other groups are scrambling to collect the data for analysis. #infosec

#psyops static.nytimes.com/email-content/… Not to distract from this thread but this part of @HoarseWisperer thread is also worth reading. Something I have also never heard of ... but is a fascinating concept and likely a very real thing ... "Irony Poisoning" #infosec

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1081795683093499904 The Hoaxy graph 4 the "we want Bernie" tweets is quite interesting. Looks like reporter @ashtonpittman was the first to report on thisYou can also see the node 4 the thread by @HoarseWisperer & then of course the origin of this campaign /comfortablySmug

@ashtonpittman Randomly looked at 20 accnts trolling @ewarren with the "We Want Bernie" chant & attempted 2 classify them. This is a very small sample & not scientific ..but interesting. Only 10% were actual #Bernie2020 supporters & mostly domestic trolls from NY @HoarseWisperer

#Bernie2020 We collected ~2800 accnts that used phrase "We want Bernie" in past 24hr & there were two #Hamilton68 Russian influencer accnts that were in our archive that participated. Two Hamilton68-like leftist accnts as well. Top 2 hashtags used in campaign #BernieWouldHaveWon

The originator ComfortablySmug is a know Republican activist / Wallstreet Hedge Fund manager so its not surprising most of these accnts had ties to NY. But there were many interesting accnts that seemed unusual. This was 1 example. Weird accnt ratios and followed early by TPUSA.

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