A partisan Democratic group claiming that bots were responsible for tweeting messages to undermine the 2018 midterm elections spurred Twitter to delete more than 10,000 user accounts.

Twitter – which, along with Google and Facebook, reportedly has employees donating to Democrats over Republicans nearly 10 to one – took the Democrats’ referrals at their word with little hesitation and eradicated 10,000 accounts to keep them from “unfairly” affecting the elections on November 6.

“Twitter indicates that the accounts were trying to persuade voters to stay home on election day – which would suppress the vote for the pivotal midterm elections on Tuesday,” TheBlaze reported. “But the way they chose these accounts was by referral from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) – a group supporting campaigns of Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives.”

Dems score early in election

Twitter’s move bowing to liberals was considered a pre-election victory for the Democratic Party.

“Yet the removals represent an early win for a fledgling effort by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – or DCCC – a party group that supports Democrats running for the U.S. House of Representatives,” Reuters pointed out. “The DCCC launched the effort this year in response to the party’s inability to respond to millions of accounts on Twitter and other social media platforms that spread negative and false information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other party candidates in 2016 – three people familiar with the operation told Reuters.”

Little evidence was required by Twitter before deciding to delete thousands of accounts that were deemed beneficial to the Republican Party on election day.

“Without citing one example, it was reported that the 10,000 Twitter accounts were posting messages to men who would likely vote Democrat – discouraging them from ‘drowning out’ the women’s vote,” TheBlaze’s Carlos Garcia stressed. “Twitter [reportedly] depended on accounts being identified by tools created by the partisan Democratic group.”

Apparently, at Twitter, those who lean to the left have a louder voice than those on the right.

“There was no indication that the Republican party was given the same consideration as Democrats were in choosing Twitter accounts to be deleted from the social media platform,” Garcia pointed out. “Conservatives and others on the right have accused Twitter and other social media companies of discriminating on the basis of political agenda, while those on the left have alleged that Russia has been using ‘bot farms’ to interfere in U.S. elections.”

The quick action Twitter took in late September and early October – which will likely end up benefitting Democratic candidates at the polls Tuesday – was corroborated by the social media giant.

“We took action on relevant accounts and activity on Twitter,” a Twitter spokesman stated in an email, according to Reuters.

Dems just weeding out conservative ‘bots’?

Millions of so-called automated Twitter accounts were said to be targeted in the 2016 election, but it was not indicated how many of the deletions were beneficial to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton – as opposed to her Republican rival, President Donald Trump.

“The number of accounts [recently] removed is modest – considering that Twitter has previously deleted millions of accounts it determined were responsible for spreading misinformation in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” CNBC.com noted.

It appears that the Democratic Party have been on the prowl this election season to make sure they have the best chances to overtake the House and Senate by weeding out any automated accounts that would keep it from victory at the ballot box on Tuesday.

“While the prevalence of misinformation campaigns have so far been modest in the run-up to the Congressional elections on Nov. 6, Democrats are hoping the flagging operation will help them react quickly if there is a flurry of such messages in the coming days,” Reuters’ Christopher Bing explained. “The tweets included ones that discouraged Democratic men from voting – saying that would drown out the voice of women – according to two of the sources familiar with the flagging operation.”

Acknowledging how instrumental social media was in former President Barack Obama’s two presidential election wins in 2008 and 2012 against Republican rivals Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.), Democrats have since been in the business of making sure Twitter works for them – and not against them – come election time.

“The DCCC developed its own system for identifying and reporting malicious automated accounts on social media, according to the three party sources,” Bing informed. “The system was built, in part, from publicly available tools known as ‘Hoaxley’ and ‘Botometer,’ developed by University of Indiana computer researchers. They allow a user to identify automated accounts – also known as bots – and analyze how they spread information on specific topics.”

University of Indiana professor of Informatics and Computer Science Filippo Menczer indicated that his system is not geared to help either party in particular, but it is the Democrats who have used to tool to their advantage.

“We made Hoaxley and Botometer free for anyone to use because people deserve to know what’s a bot and what’s not,” Menczer said, according to Reuters.

Breaking elections down to a science – not to mention other attempts by Democrats in the past to affect the election, including using names off the Dallas Cowboys’ roster, dead Democratic voters and incarcerated criminals – Democrats are diligently working to make sure social media will end up leaning the polls in their favor.

“The Democratic National Committee works with a group of contractors and partners to rapidly identify misinformation campaigns,” Bing divulged. “They include RoBhat Labs – a firm whose website says it has developed technology capable of detecting bots and identifying political-bias in messages.”

It is the job of the top Democrat over technology matters to make sure that virulent anti-Democratic messages are wiped off social media channels – but it was not divulged whether the leftist techie makes sure hostile anti-Republican users are targeted and eradicated, as well.

“The collaboration with RoBhat has already led to the discovery of malicious accounts and posts, which were referred to social media companies and other campaign officials, DNC Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian said in email,” Bing added. “Krikorian did not say whether the flagged posts were ultimately removed by Twitter.”

RoBhat Labs Co-founder Ash Bhat admitted to working closely with the Democratic Party, but did not say anything about assisting Republicans to weed out bots hurting the chances of conservative candidates at elections.

“We provide the DNC with reports about what we’re seeing in terms of bot activity and where it’s being amplified,” Bhat revealed, according to Reuters. “We can’t tell you who’s behind these different operations – Twitter hides that from us – but with the technology, you know when and how it’s happening.”