How Russian bots responded to killings in the Florida school
The day after the mass shooting in high school in Florida in the US segment, there was a sharp surge of tweets about the free circulation of weapons. Messages sent bots controlled by the Kremlin, reports The Hill.
Web site Hamilton 68which keeps track of accounts Twitterrelated to Russian propaganda, identified trend hashtags and topics on Thursday, including #Parkland, #guncontrolnow, #Florida and #guncontrol, as well as Nikolas — the name of the accused shooter.
Another website owned by RoBhat Labs, Botcheck.mewhich tracks bots of political propaganda, discovered that two-word phrases were used in Twitter the day after the shooting, with the exception of “President Trump”, most often related to shooting in Florida, according to Wired.
According to WiredSome bots create hashtags and replicate them until they are picked up by other users. Other bots grab the hashtags that are already being used to try to sharpen the conversation.
Mass shootings are often accompanied by heightened debate over gun control, a highly contentious political issue.
Topical topics and hashtags of Russian bots became active even a year after the US intelligence community published a report detailing Russia's attempts to influence the presidential election of the 2016 of the year.
National Intelligence Director Dan Kuats warned lawmakers that the Russians will again intervene in the elections to be held this year.
“We expect Russia to continue to use propaganda, social media and other means of influence to try to worsen social and political problems in the United States,” he said.
Recall that February 14 in high school in Parkland, Florida, was shot, as a result of which at least 17 people were killed and several injured. It is reported that first the attacker triggered a fire alarm that caused a panic at school, and then opened fire on the people running.
The shooter was a former student of this school. 19-year-old Nicholas Cruz. The motives of the shooter are currently not established, but it is known that he had previously been expelled from this educational institution for disciplinary reasons, calling it a “threat” to students. A young man who was adopted at birth by an elderly couple, has recently suffered from depression. His father died when the boy was still young, and his mother was buried just 3 a month ago.
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