The Democrats ran a fraudulent Twitter campaign to boost Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in the October 2017 special election, according to reports. Operatives from the Democrat party created thousands of fake Twitter accounts posing as Russian bots and linked them to Jones’s Republican opponent, Roy Moore, to push the ‘Russian interference’ narrative. Funded by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman, the operatives created thousand Russian-language accounts that followed Moore’s Twitter account, making him look like he was being aided by the Russians, according to the The New York Times.
Operatives received $100,000 from Hoffman to launch the crooked campaign, enabling them to create fake conservative Facebook accounts to convince voters that Moore being helped by Russia.
“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the operatives admitted in an internal report acquired by the Times. Mainstream media outlets, both in Alabama and nationally, ran with the false narrative without questioning its authenticity.
