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Russian trolls tweeted 18,000 times on Oct. 6, 2016
On the eve of one of the newsiest days of the 2016 presidential election season, a group of Russian operatives fired off tweets at a furious pace, about a dozen each minute. By the time they finished, more than 18,000 had been sent through cyberspace toward unwitting U.S. voters, making it the busiest day by far in a disinformation operation whose aftermath is still roiling U.S. politics.
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Gosh. That’s so many! Out of the literally five hundred million tweets per day on average, that’s, like, a third of a percent of a percent. Checkmate, people that thought the most despised presidential candidate ever stealing the nomination from the most popular politician in America, only to then lose to the second-most despised presidential candidate ever, was a bad move.
But those tweets may have made Hills feel bad and she couldn't go out of the house to campaign in Wisconsin or Michigan.
Or something.
To be fair, though, it was gracious of this Goldwater girl to hand-deliver the stolen presidency to Trumplestilskin. Never lose sight of what's really important — her fiery final showdown with the Soviet Union — in accordance with prophecy. She's bound to win next time, right?