“Many of the accounts used profile pictures of Black men taken from news reports or other sources. One of the fake accounts had, in the place of a profile photo, the words ‘black man photo’ — a hint of sloppiness by the network’s creators. ‘It’s asymmetrical warfare,’ said Linvill, lead researcher for the Clemson University Media Forensics Hub. ‘They don’t have to last long. And they are so cheap to produce that you can get a lot of traction without a whole lot of work. Thank you, Twitter.’ Linvill said he found some evidence of foreign origins of the network, with a few traces of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet appearing in online records of the accounts. One account previously tweeted to promote an escort service in Turkey, Linvill found.”
– Excerpt from a Washington Post report on fake Black Trump supporters being tracked on Twitter.