Twitter removes bots retweeting anti-Mueller report

Twitter has removed as many as 5,000 bot accounts tied to a network amplifying a message denouncing the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as a “RussiaGate” hoax, media report said.

Most of the accounts had few posts — as less as three. However, all the accounts frequently retweeted content from an account nameed @TheGlobus (previously ‘Arabian Veritas’), according to information shared with NBC News by researchers who uncovered the network and analysis by Foreign Policy Research Institute senior fellow Clint Watts.

“We suspended a network of accounts and others associated with it for engaging in platform manipulation — a violation of the Twitter Rules. An investigation into the network is still ongoing but no determination has yet been made about who was behind the campaign,” a Twitter spokeswoman was quoted as saying by the ARSTechnica.