You’d think Vladimir Putin would give it a rest after getting his puppet candidate, Donald Trump, elected President of the United States, but apparently, Russia just can’t stop meddling with American social media.
In the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting, CNN ran a piece attributing the rise in pro-gun and pro-NRA tweets to Russian bots. And when everyone was waiting for the Nunes memo to become public? Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff demanded to know if Russian bots were pushing the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag.
Now, the same mysterious “bipartisan” group that linked those pro-Second Amendment tweets to Russia has both HuffPost and Salon convinced that the #WalkAway hashtag — encouraging fed-up Democrats to leave the party as it moves further and further left toward the edge of the cliff — is also a Kremlin operation.
Russian bots are back: #WalkAway attack on Democrats is a likely Kremlin operation https://t.co/a8WKGS9Gha
— Salon (@Salon) July 9, 2018
If you’d like to read a pretty solid takedown of Hamilton 68, the so-called bipartisan site set up to track Russian social media activity — Twitchy posted Glenn Greenwald’s analysis back in February. Otherwise, just blame the Russians for stirring up another hashtag campaign.
Yes, yes, go with that.
Just another reason to #WalkAway https://t.co/mmLKnAfRYp
— Ty (@Ty_Atty) July 9, 2018
Lol. Y’all are too funny. But that’s ok. Keep thinking that. See you in November
— Laurabee? (@lindabphillips) July 9, 2018
Yeah, no. It’s not.
— Leslie ☕️ (@BikerChick9999) July 9, 2018
You just keep telling yourself that.
— Whousedallthenames (@whousedallnames) July 9, 2018
Funny how every time a hashtag trends that’s not favorable of the left, it’s automatically“Muh Russian Bots”. Good grief, get a hold of yourselves, the Kremlin hysteria is insufferable. Ever think maybe it’s Dem’s batshit insane extremism that is driving people to #WalkAway ?
— ATennesseePerspective? (@SpeakinFromTN) July 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheBrometheus/status/1016454944981966860
https://twitter.com/3_Percenter__/status/1016377139304656896
Man, these bots are everywhere, even in the comments to Salon’s article.
"Anyone who doesn't agree with me is a Russian bot." ~ Salon
You seriously can't go bankrupt soon enough.
— Red Alert USA (@RedAlertUSA) July 9, 2018
You guys just take any anti-dem movement or trend and call it Russian bots like the boy who cried wolf. It’s comical at this point.
— Lynn Gallagher (@LynnGallagher_) July 9, 2018
Yeah, whatever happened to that investigation into whether #ReleaseTheMemo was the work of Russian bots? Seems Feinstein or Schiff would have shouted the results from the rooftops.
https://twitter.com/Fuhriously/status/1016398484058955776
As a non bot, I can declare it is not a kremlin operation… we just don’t like you very much.
— Tradpop (@TradPopulist) July 9, 2018
You guys are too much ? #walkaway
— GinGinSom (@SomDonkey) July 9, 2018
— Robby (@PublicForum3) July 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/kernerc/status/1016456006233133056
Hey, if you think the group behind Hamilton 68 is all liberals, boy are you wrong — none other than Bill Kristol is on the advisory board, and it doesn’t get more conservative than that.
The site that endorses and promotes pedophilia is telling me I’m a Russian bot because I’m revolted by Democrats tantrums and unhinged behavior.
— JohnMansour (@didididwa) July 9, 2018
Hey, c’mon now, let’s be civil. Salon doesn’t promote pedophilia on its site … oh, wait.
Salon is trash pic.twitter.com/1x7Q877UCf
— Jason R (@New_Hampshire1) July 9, 2018
Tired of unhinged writers pushing propaganda and masquerading as reporters all while they call you a bot? #WalkAway
Thanks for the free advertising @Salon.
— Red Alert USA (@RedAlertUSA) July 9, 2018
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'They are DESPERATE'! Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff just jumped the #ReleaseTheMemo shark https://t.co/pxcxLLJxva
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 23, 2018
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