Influencing the influencers
Singular tweets and postings are not scalable and will not reach a wide-enough audience to influence any action or outcome. In order to gain virality and appear as if the message is worthy of further views and, ultimately, promote the narrative, it is necessary to have an influencer push the narrative into the public view.
The goal of any troll or Twitter operation is ultimately to get the message retweeted or reposted by an influencer with a massive following. Once that occurs, this is when the message will attain widespread dispersion and the message's veracity will increase.
In 2017, the US House Intelligence Committee publicly released the Twitter handles of over 2,700 handles that were directly tied to the Intelligence Research Agency (IRA), a Russian intelligence agency-linked firm. Within those names and handles were hundreds of viral Twitter accounts that had directly targeted over 3,000 global news agencies and had been noted as directly...
