Contract Account Killer
A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Musk recently going after Twitter executives has rattled some thinking that this is a harbinger of how Elon or others he favors will engage once he gains full control of the world’s second most important social media company. I am here to tell you something that may shock people. Twitter was already weaponized behind the scenes to hurt people.
Let’s look again at the prime single purpose hate account I have been investigating, KassandraSeven working within a different op, with different accounts than we have previously seen. Here is one missed tweet she forgot to delete, part of a thread of inauthentic coordinated harassment aimed at Rebekah Jones.
Currently one can find Susan of New York, which is the above KassandraSeven account operator’s real first name and current hometown, working on a campaign attacking anyone supportive of former Elon Musk’s girlfriend Amber Heard. I cover that a bit in this recent article.
Before KassandraSeven was running a malign social influence campaign bent on destroying Amber Heard, she joined along with others to malign, defame and deplatform Rebekah Jones, the prominent Florida data scientist and congressional candidate. Here is Jim Stewartson’s article regarding that.
I decided to dig deeper into that past influence operation, seeing what breadcrumbs Susan left undeleted. To do that we will look at three masked single purpose hate accounts targeting Rebekah Jones, KassandraSeven, GeoRebekahF11 and GeoJones and their interactions from the above screen grab.
Chirpty for GeoRebekahF11
Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’s press secretary shows up on both charts. Elon Musk makes a surprise appearance in the second ring. I also see some of my favorite actually dependable COVID-19 experts I followed closely prior to focusing on the KassandraSeven Network.
This account’s top five phrases according to Bot Sentinel are these.
Chirpty for GeoJones
KassandraSeven appears in the outermost band on this account along with GeoRebekahF11 and Christina Pushaw, which strikes me as odd considering K7 has engaged in at least two coordinated harassment campaigns since attacking Jones. The Bot Sentinel key phrases below is far more offensive, included in its entirety.
GeoJones was following ten accounts, most sock in appearance with the exception of Peggy Schiller.
Here was a screenshot of the first listed follower, whom oddly George doesn’t follow.
What would she be doing following a tiny malignant troll account without even having a follow back. Weird.
And of course weaponized troll K7.
And again for GeoRebekahF11, the first listed follower was Pushaw.
Neither of these secondary accounts appear to be within the KassandraSeven Network which makes sense considering this was a different op than the ones I was previously investigating.
I decided to check more troll accounts that were attacking Jones after Pushaw showed up as the first account following, because that really was weird right?
This one was the second follower.
I also spotted Susan without bothering to scroll on the first page.
Another second follower.
Second follower.
Man Pushaw follows a lot of single purpose hate accounts and is listed in the first or second position of so many of those accounts listed followers.
Let’s get back to Sue who only managed to delete one of the two tweets in this attack defaming Jones, using one of the three most often highest appearing followers among trolls targeting Jones, MaxNordau.
Claiming Jones committed fraud and lying is very familiar isn’t it?
The whole intent of these threads talking with allied socks or one’s own socks is to malign the target, build impressions, be seen and remembered. None of the bad stuff is true, which makes what Susan did classic defamation.
The same old schtick.
And one more.
There was much much more that KassandraSeven deleted, likely far more egregious than what she left behind.
Like these.
Or the one where the account most likely responsible for banning her, for spam and manipulation made via a screenshot appearance, conspirator0, complete with the accusation made by Pushaw and teammate Susan that Jones bought follows.
Usually big profile politicos don’t do that.
And especially not this.
Hello conspirator0.