5413 BREAKING: GAB RECREATES TRUMP'S ENTIRE TWITTER ACCOUNT!!! (twitter.com) posted 93 days ago by Rainman 93 days ago by Rainman +5416 / -3 270 comments share 270 comments share save hide report block hide child comments Comments (270) sorted by: top new old worst You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread. ▲ 226 ▼ – remembervoat 226 points 93 days ago +226 / -0 Gab set up that account when it started. They should have every damn tweet that twitter nuked. They made it in the hope that someday President Trump would move there from Twitter. They had a bot that scraped twitter. permalink save report block reply ▲ 31 ▼ – deleted 31 points 93 days ago +31 / -0 ▲ 15 ▼ – combatmonk 15 points 93 days ago +15 / -0 This is how Information War has been conducted for decades. It’s called a Twitter Influence Operation: Machine Learning (ML) for hot button words for sentiment analysis. Long running Twitter accounts reflag as supporting causes from #1. Tweet from #3 to automated bot accounts which retweet and amplify. Real users pickup ML words and act. Plant agitators in crowd is real people from #4. There’s plenty of papers on it and how we launched the Arab Spring etc. it’s also the playbook used in Ukraine. permalink parent save report block reply
Gab set up that account when it started. They should have every damn tweet that twitter nuked. They made it in the hope that someday President Trump would move there from Twitter. They had a bot that scraped twitter.
This is how Information War has been conducted for decades. It’s called a Twitter Influence Operation:
Machine Learning (ML) for hot button words for sentiment analysis.
Long running Twitter accounts reflag as supporting causes from #1.
Tweet from #3 to automated bot accounts which retweet and amplify.
Real users pickup ML words and act.
Plant agitators in crowd is real people from #4.
There’s plenty of papers on it and how we launched the Arab Spring etc. it’s also the playbook used in Ukraine.