The House Intelligence Committee has asked Twitter to provide more information about a viral video of jeering high school students in Make America Great Again hats surrounding a Native American man, a committee aide told HuffPost. The @2020fight account followed over 37,000 users and averaged 210 posts and likes a day, which experts say are classic signs that an account may be automated or inauthentic. The House Intelligence Committee is now requesting more information about the @2020fight account. “Deliberate attempts to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter by using misleading account information is a violation of the Twitter Rules,” the spokesperson told HuffPost. The @2020fight account, which had around 41,400 followers at the time, listed a price of $20 a tweet.

Source: Huffington Post January 22, 2019 22:18 UTC