Russian social media bots and trolls have entered the Government Trump shutdown storm. According to an organization that monitors Moscow's influence efforts through social media, Russian bots are flooding social media with the hashtag "#SchumerShutdown" to counter the #TrumpShutdown hashtag that was the top trending one in the past few days. The Alliance for Securing Democracy reports that as of last night, the "blame Schumer" hashtag had surpassed their "#Releasethememo" hashtag that pushes the diversionary smear -- that a broad, anti-Trump conspiracy exists in the FBI -- in order to discredit the Trump- Russia scandal investigation. Here's the Alliance's specific findings in graph form (click to enlarge):
If anyone thought the Kremlin's efforts to undermine our democracy were over after they put their asset / useful idiot in the Oval Office, their aggressive engagement in social media on behalf of Putin puppet Donald "Rump" Trump and his Republican Party should put that to rest.
