Twitter bots are being deployed to amplify negative news on Somalia
I’m just noticing a lot of the Major opposition leaders and Opposition supporters are getting hundreds of thousands of retweets and barely any likes on there twitter posts. Before this they would barely get any retweets or likes, maybe 5-10 max not even exaggerating.The funny thing is these posts are clearly posting AI photos of tanks in the middle of the streets and the video the keeps circulating is from Puntland and it’s 2-3 years old! Keep in mind these accounts never get this many impressions or retweets. I suspect it was a paid misinformation campaign paid by the UAE. They expected a massive protest and prepared the misinformation campaign before hand to confuse people. They wanted to mix in fake clips with hundreds of thousands of bot retweets to push a narrative. Many of the accounts being botted are going out of their way to not mention what’s going on. The silence is suspect from them