Russia Will Support Any Politician Who Is Anti-Trade Agreement and Anti-Treaty
This is why you can have Russian trolls supporting Dennis Kucinich, who advocated trying NATO commanders in international criminal court, on the one hand, and Rand Paul, on the other, who is similarly anti-NATO.
So, if you see a candidate who has a history of promoting isolationist policies coupled with perma-kicked one line threads that are supportive of the candidate and critical of rivals along with divisive labels such as Third-Way, Corporatist, Clintonista, Al Franken, DLC, neoliberal, DINO and Globalist, then be cautious.
While Trump definitely got a boost by Russia in the 2016 election, foreign trolls will target the left and promote folks with a Russia friendly agenda while also trying to sow discord with labels that are easily picked up and distributed. Look at how Al Franken is now used as a weapon against Democratic candidates.
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/08/how-to-identify-russian-bots-twitter/
How to Spot a Russian Bot
In late July, Twitter’s stock took a beating as the company ramped up efforts to improve “conversational health” on the platform, including purging millions of fake accounts. That was followed by news that members of Congress led by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) are studying potential ways to regulate Big Tech, in part to battle the kind of disinformation on social media that tainted the 2016 elections.
The Russian government and other malicious actors continue to spread false information and divisive political content on Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms—efforts that rely in no small part on the unwitting participation of everyday people, according to Bret Schafer, an analyst at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. “Social-media users need to be aware of their role in information laundering. If a user retweets, emails, or posts information taken from a less-than-credible point of origin, they now have become the new ‘source’ of that information for friends, family, [and] followers,” Schafer told Mother Jones. “This is how false information really spreads.”
So-called bots, and bot networks, are a big part of the problem. These are generally accounts that operate according to programmed instructions, although human users may control them some of the time. Not all bots are malicious, of course; automated accounts can have benign or even whimsical purposes, like learning how to “see” or “talk.”
Various experts have offered guides to spotting Twitter bots, though the specifics can get pretty obscure and technical. We’ve culled the below from some of the best online guides and expert advice—with the caveat that malicious actors continue to grow more sophisticated and none of these indicators is surefire. (When the Atlantic Council’s Ben Nimmo, author of an excellent guide to spotting bots, fingered a pro-Kremlin troll recently, British media erroneously labeled the account “a bot,” prompting a retired British IT worker to come forward as the account’s owner.) Here are five key ways to identify possible bots in your Twitter feed:
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