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What reason could Russia have to hack a county that was going to vote for its favored candidate in the first place?

Cambridge Analytica’s Molly Schweickert—to the contrary of most media outlets and experts—claimed that their data showed a high probability of a Trump win. So, where was Cambridge Analytica getting getting its data?

Everyone should know what Voter Registration Files do. Why they are so critical. Why we are so worried.

Part I: Our team did a traceroute on some oddly named Trump sub-domains. What we found was shocking.

Beyond exposing bots, patterns also help to identify fake Twitter account distributors responsible for spreading fake account networks across Twitter.

The Twitter Bot Mother Lode is a super botnet comprised of a variety of bots that span the globe and are systematically created daily.

Unfettered by Twitter’s rules, Trump’s tweets and retweets of suspect accounts have allowed him to amplify his personal and political attacks for years.

It is time. Well past time. We need to stop using Social Media to vent and, instead, use Social Media to start organizing massive rallies.

For 20+ years, the GOP have gamed our elections. Machines, gerrymandering, suppression, Crosscheck, and more. In 2020, we’ll be taking our elections back.

Which bot checkers are better? Are they worth using at all? We reviewed several bot checkers commonly used by Twitter users–by testing them.

NC09 has 540,000 registered voters. Yesterday, only about 185,000 voted in the special election! This won’t cut it. Low voter turnout will sink us.

Artem Klyushin has claimed to be giving Russian directives to Trump by tweet. So, we took a closer look at Klyushin’s claims.

After Twitter released thousands of IRA-linked accounts, we found a botnet nested within the data dump. A botnet with at least 1,000 still-active accounts.

We previously reported on a Twitter account housing over 60,000 Russian-English bots. Since Twitter hasn’t suspended the account, we’ve tracked its network.

States removed almost 16 million voters from the rolls in just two years (2014-2016). 16 million purged voters. We don’t have a bigger problem than this!

It’s well documented that Trump’s Twitter account is rife with fake followers.Those fake followers swell Trump’s account and inflate his interactions.

We now know that Russia targeted all 50 states. Why didn’t DHS inform all of the states? And why didn’t they inform any of the states sooner?

Our election system has become so complicated that we do not know what shell to look under when we have a problem.

A step-by-step walk-through of how to spot a bot–tools to analyze a twitter account.

On September 29, 2019, Trump tweeted about Civil War. We took a look at how the bots in Trump’s account added significantly to the problem.

Twitter’s algorithms help to push bots into real accounts by way of Twitter’s own “Who to Follow” lists. These lists recognize and suggest connected bots.

Stacey Abrams’ narrow loss in Georgia highlights the importance of securing our election systems.

A Georgia judge ruled against securing the Elections in 2019 so it doesn’t interfere with the State’s ability to put in new, insecure voting machines.