Yes, Donald Trump just retweeted a bot to rant about the 'fake news media'
Oops, he did it again.
After thanking an entrepreneur who turned out to be a bot, it seems that Donald Trump has just retweeted another fake fan account -- either an advanced bot or linked to a bot network.
On Monday morning, the US president thanked @Aroliso for slamming the #FakeNews media. "You never falter, you always stand strong," Aroliso tweeted as part of a thread. This is what Trump posted:
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A quick look at @Aroliso shows that somebody created the account in October 2015 but it first tweeted just 3 days ago, gathering over 6,000 followers with memes and posts exclusively celebrating Donald Trump:
The account only follows 5 people -- interestingly it includes singers Bjork and Tori Amos -- and the bio just says "MAGA".
All these elements point to a possible fake pro-Trump account. But there's more.
The current @Aroliso is actually a very recent takeover. Until last Friday, it had just one follower and used to exclusively retweet another account, @AvoTovA:
@AvoTovA had around 7,700 followers before it was deleted and restarted:
And at the time -- surprise surprise -- it also used to tweet pro-Trump messages, mostly nonsensical support statements:
Some people on Twitter noticed that @Aroliso tweeted to the President via something called "Avotova 06" (!!!), which is probably an API registered with Twitter:
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To close the circle, the now-dead website has "Donald Trump parody videos in its metadata, as noticed by Daily Beast's Ben Collins:
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Here you go:
If this not proof that Trump retweeted a fake account, we don't know what is.
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