Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers Include 100K ‘Sock Puppets’ From Foreign Troll Farms – IOTW Report

Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers Include 100K ‘Sock Puppets’ From Foreign Troll Farms

PJM: Hold up. We were told that the social media giants would oversee, like the benevolent dictators they are, this election season. There would be no funny stuff allowed, they promised. They would hold their velvet hammers over the heads of anyone who gained an advantage through social media chicanery. Never again would Russian troll farms be able to buy $150,000 worth of Facebook ads, most of which ran after the election, to sway uh, ex post facto voters for that Russian Secret Agent Donald Trump.

After 2016, outraged professors labeled the practice “weaponization” in a “new kind of information warfare.”

But that’s so passé.

Fast-forward to August of 2020. Newsweek reports that’s when somebody bought Joe Biden a pool of Indian Twitter fake followers to make his following look larger and to amplify his messages on social media. Eventually, those fake followers numbered “more than 100,000” of his 11.8 million followers. read more

9 Comments on Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers Include 100K ‘Sock Puppets’ From Foreign Troll Farms

  1. They are excited and proud of one of their own.

    Just like human beings they often tease the ones they love to show their affection. One cannot praise the ones they love all the time, but silence would be viewed as shunning them.

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