January 23, 2018

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January 22, 2018

New poll (Jan. 13-16): Democrats, who would you vote for in '20? (Biden 26%, Sanders 16%, Oprah 13%)

A new Harvard/Harris poll find Joe Biden as the front-runner of the Democratic Party nomination in 2020.
See page 27:
http://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Final_HHP_18Jan2018_RegisteredVoters_Xtabs.pdf

January 19, 2018

#ReleaseTheMemo, #SchumerShutdown, among top 10 hashtags used by Russian troll accounts in last 24H

A concerted effort to hype an alleged memo written by Devin Nunes (as well as blaming Chuck Schumer for a possible shutdown) is underway, according to the Hamilton Project, which tracks covert Russian activity on Twitter:

January 19, 2018

Russia-linked Twitter accounts are working overtime to help Devin Nunes and WikiLeaks

Source: Business Insider

Republican lawmakers are pushing for the House Intelligence Committee to release a memo written by the panel's chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, that outlines purported surveillance against then President-elect Donald Trump by former President Barack Obama's administration during the transition period.

And Russia-linked Twitter bots have jumped on the bandwagon.

#ReleaseTheMemo is the top-trending hashtag among Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that claims to track Russian propaganda in near-real time.

The frequency with which the accounts have been promoting the hashtag has spiked by 233,000% over the past 48 hours, according to the site. The accounts' references to the "memo," meanwhile, have increased by 68,000%.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/release-the-memo-campaign-russia-linked-twitter-accounts-2018-1

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Twitter is doing nothing to prevent Putin's troll army from making any hashtag and topic they want trend on Twitter.
No wonder #ReleaseTheMemo was trending earlier.