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ONE of the Russian propaganda sites

Sep 27, 2017 1:25PM PDT

ONE of the Russian propaganda sites for the American election?

The fake Tea Party Twitter account linked to Russia and followed by Sebastian Gorka

@tpartynews looked as American as could be. A Twitter account, its profile photo on the site was a "Tea Party" teapot in the colors of the American flag. Its cover photo was an image of the U.S. Constitution.

In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, @tpartynews posted pro-Trump, conservative and anti-immigrant messages. It regularly retweeted Fox News, Ann Coulter and other conservative Twitter accounts. And 22,000 accounts followed it -- one of them former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka's.

But @tpartynews wasn't American. It was part of a Russian propaganda operation, according to Russian journalists who discovered the link.


THE Tea Party was used/abused by the Russians?

No one from THE Tea Party noticed?

The Russian position/policies and THE Tea Party positions/policies were the same?

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