ADVERTISEMENTWASHINGTON ― For almost two years, @TEN_GOP masqueraded as the “Unofficial Twitter account of Tennessee Republicans,” but in truth it was part of a Kremlin-directed influence operation. Sebastian Gorka, a former foreign policy adviser to Trump with ties to Nazi sympathizers, retweeted @TEN_GOP at least six times. The headline on the story was “Trump retweeted a Twitter bot — then it got suspended,” but @TEN_GOP’s tweet suggests that Twitter punished a Trump fan who’d caught the tweeter-in-chief’s eye. Unsurprisingly, Flynn Jr. retweeted the Russian propaganda account over 30 times ― much of it racist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant content. As @RapinBill, this mysterious troll retweeted @TEN_GOP 162 times, acting as a force multiplier for Russian-driven racial discord and contaminated political discourse.

Source: Huffington Post November 01, 2017 18:40 UTC