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'Trollbots' Swarm Twitter with Attacks on Climate Science Ahead of UN Summit | InsideClimate News

MOAR bots

Try not to laugh too hard. This is the rally that the RuTrolls, bots and other usual-suspect fashbois were promoting on social media and a horrendously ugly webshite called motherofallrallies-dot-com.

Looks like the propaganda isn't working as well as they'd hope.

Live shots from the pro-Trump "Mother of All Rallies" going on in DC right now.

...Turns out bots can't rally. #MOAR pic.twitter.com/AO8nboy4pM

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) 16 September 2017

I see no Russian trolls!

The weirdness continues.

This Russian account tweeted just once: a smear of ProPublica, that somehow got 23k RTs. pic.twitter.com/S4F1lsIJEz

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) 25 August 2017

Profile of a Russian troll