Russian bots promote pro-gun messages after Florida school shooting

Looks like Russia is still busy promoting rightwing causes in America, and stirring up discord. Every Trumper should take comfort, knowing they have allies overseas. In Russia.

Russia-linked bots are promoting pro-gun messages on Twitter in an attempt to sow discord in the aftermath of the Florida school shooting, monitoring groups say.

Hashtags, topics, and URLs related to the shooting overwhelmingly feature in the tweets pushed by these automated Twitter accounts in the past 48 hours, according to Hamilton 68, a tool launched by the Alliance for Securing Democracy to track what it describes as "Russian propaganda and disinformation efforts online."

The Alliance is a group housed at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) think tank to "defend against, deter, and raise the costs on Russian and other actors' efforts to undermine democracy and democratic institutions," according to their mission statement.

The group does not disclose which accounts it tracks and CNN has not independently verified its findings.

Among the hashtags and topics related to the shooting are #falseflag, #fbi, #gunreformnow, #fbigate, #parklandschoolshooting, the name of the shooter -- Nikolas Cruz -- and Florida.

Another bot-tracking website, Botcheck.me, reports that all but one of the top two-word phrases used in the past 24 hours by 1,500 political propaganda bots were connected to the shooting: "gun control," "Nikolas Cruz," "school shooting," "school shooter" and "fake news." The exception was "President Trump."

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/us/russian-bots-florida-shooting-intl/index.html

 

And tRUmp sits on his hands while on Putin's lap.

 

this dog doesn't hunt anymore, guy
face it - you have nothing on Trump

 

Except Russian Trump supporters are meddling with America.
And they're possibly paid by the government. Somebody is paying them.

 

I understand the pain expressed in this post, I do.

 

so there are charges pending against Trump ? not sure what you're so happy about. You should be upset that Russia interfered with our election. You seem more annoyed Trump had nothing to do with it.

 

Are your questions related to the OP article, if not your may want to read it carefully as none of the quoted questions relate to it.

 

Why is this suddenly about Trump??

This is about Russian interference in Democracy

 

Or more worryingly it is the Russian Mafia

Particularly when it comes to firearms. The Russian Mafia would not want a nice untraceable source of guns to dry up. Seems they have been funnelling money into the NRA

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/nra...dering-poisoning-us-democracy-commentary.html

 

My friends of Trump in Merka, Comrade Putin wishes to tell you drinking glass of Liquid Drano a day is good for health and makes you manly man like Putin.

Na Zdorovie!

 

Because your alt-lefty friend in comment #3 made it about Trump.

 

Russia Russia Russia

Does this mean that the Democrats will become pro Constitution and start defending the Second Amendment and run on a political platform of "An AR-15 in every American closet" ?

 

lol. so, every time the left is defeated in elections or embarrassed in debate we can expect them to cry about Russia's sinister role?

pandemic level of victimhood ya got there, commies.

 

I think, in part, it's a sign of how fractured we are as a country that this divisive propaganda can take root so successfully in the first place.

 

Ir was the Russians who were behind those anti Trump protest after the election.

Mueller Confirms: Russia Used Anti-Trump Resistance To Stoke Division
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/16/russia-trump-resistance-protests/

I already knew that.

And you didn't see me taking the bait.

 

No but they may find out that the American right has been sucked in

 

yes, and they need to be dealt with for that reason.
but you lefties have been yapping about Russian collusion with Trump for a year.
you made this bed, and now you lie in it.

 

I know, right? The ones who were duped by the Russians are crying that they were duped by Russians. Suddenly the party of the highly educated and intellectual elite look dumber than a a door nail.

 

The American right didn't switch their votes, that would be the American left.

 

I think it is more amazing that right wing members on this board seem to think that Russian Trolls are preferable to fellow Americans who hold a different political view

 

Don't worry. No one expects you to read the same information proves the Russians promoted anti Trump rallies.

Exactly how much longer are you going to let them use you, mate?

 

I wonder if it was a Russian who designed those stupid p*ssyhats too....

 

The Second Amendment has been around a whole lot longer than Putin or Russian intelligence or Russian trolls.

 

The American right has become increasingly radicalised

Once upon a time you would not have seen posts dismissing the death of children as unimportant

The right used to be about family values now ***** grabbing is fine and even paedophilia gets a pass

 

I didn't notice anyone here saying anything like that? But now that you mention it -- considering some of the extreme irrational hate that comes from "the left" -- maybe it would be more reassuring to think the extreme irrational hate was coming from Russian hackers and not from fellow Americans. The left really has been painted in an especially bad light since the election..... I don't know if it's better or not to think it was all provoked by Russian hacker puppet masters.