TENS of thousands of fake Twitter accounts were created to support the military coup against Bolivia’s elected president Evo Morales, a new study suggests.
Spanish party Podemos’s head of social networks Julian Macias Tovar said that over 68,000 false accounts were set up to try to legitimise the army’s overthrow of Mr Morales following his re-election last month and to justify the massacres of protesters against the coup that have followed.
The study notes that, of far-right Bolivian coup-backer Luis Camacho’s 135,473 Twitter followers, more than 55,000 were users created in the last 18 days.
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