Featuring frequently a 56 year old lady running well past her prime as a single purpose hate account, its hard to see just how effective Susan Portnoy once was. Let’s look at someone else, who is working to sow political discord in Arizona.
Thanks Elon.
Not only do we have frauds like Leah McElrath and Tara Reade traipsing around with blue (or white) checks, more disruptive malignant bad actors like this one can too.
So how did I find this bot?
Is it really a bot?
The account is inorganic and inauthentic, so many people would describe this account as a bot despite at times an actual human stepping in and using it.
What it doesn’t do much of is amplify other accounts via retweets and likes, such as the minuscule sock-net that supports the sock-net of single purpose hate accounts surrounding Portnoy does. Instead the vast majority of the 475 tweets it has so far put out are amplified by a botnet making it a central cog generating likely tens of thousands of impressions given the above stats.
The account is very dangerous pro-Russian in addition to generating harmful Republican culture war tropes. It also appears slated based on its tweets currently to back DeSantis over Trump, yet that could change. Here is the best indicator that this account is meant to serve Russian interests.
First, there aren’t US boots on the ground in Ukraine, so American casualties have been negligible with a couple US civilian and International volunteer forces lost fighting Putin’s genocidal incursion. Second, it is very uncommon for Americans to use U.S. in their writing. Nuclear War isn’t capitalized either; however, it is clear this operative is doing so to make the words a point of emphasis.
Biden’s policy against Russian aggression has been at times reactionary and slow, yet by far the best strategy militarily conducted over the last fifty years. The Ukrainians are winning the war, and doing so benefiting the entire world. Russian armor, high tech weaponry, and forces are vastly depleted, and sanctions are grinding Russian economic activity especially within its military industrial complex to a fine powder. It should be a major embarrassment to Putin to have to beg Iran and North Korea for weapons it can no longer supply for itself.
Troop morale among the Z forces long ago plummeted. Unable to sustain their forces during the winter the Russians ran from Kherson without much of a fight, though not doing so until after the midterm elections. Frankly, if Biden and Congress push more supplies of the right kind to Ukraine right now, Zelensky’s forces would likely take back Crimea.
As for this Pro-Russian bot, its going to push disinformation like this above in the one state US’s adversaries feel is the easiest to light a match under and cause mayhem.