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Russian bots rally behind Fox News'Laura Ingraham as advertisers dump her show,Parkland pro Hogg
| On Saturday evening, #istandwithlaura was the top trending hashtag among Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that tracks Russian propaganda campaigns in near-real time.
Per the site's data, the frequency with which the accounts tweeted the hashtag jumped by 2800% on Friday and Saturday.
Meanwhile, according to the website botcheck.me, which says it tracks 1500 "political propaganda bots,"
| @ingrahamangle, @davidhogg111, and @foxnews were among the top six Twitter handles Russia-linked accounts tweeted at over the last 24 hours. The top two-word phrases were "David Hogg" and "Laura Ingraham."
Ingraham tweeted an article earlier this week that said Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had been rejected from several California universities.
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Hogg has emerged as a frequent target for prominent conservatives since the shooting, who have criticized him for his gun-control activism.
"David Hogg Rejected by Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.)" Ingraham tweeted.
Hogg and several other students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas
| responded by calling for an advertising boycott of Ingraham's show and tweeting a list of companies people could contact to demand they pull their ads.
Since then, roughly a dozen companies have announced plans to pull their commercials from her show, despite an apology from Ingraham on Thursday.
Upon reading the news on Saturday that Ingraham would be taking time off from the show, Hogg tweeted, "Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week."
| http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-bots-support-fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-amid-advertiser-exodus-2018-3
| ...are you fucking serious? Over some random kid's GPA. Can Americans focus on more important shit?
| Oh no, now she'll be making slightly less money, stop the presses!
| Is it just a fad to call everything that even slightly disagrees with you a Russian bot?
| >>212947 Is it just a fad to call everything that even slightly disagrees with you fake news?
Just because you can't see it, and that frankly it sounds insane, doesn't mean others can't.
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| How surprising c_c
Wish her show would be dumped entirely. Watch advertisers come right back when other controversies overtake this one.
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| As companies yank their ads from Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham's show in droves, she continues to draw support from one key Twitter demographic: Russian bots.
The advertiser exodus comes after Ingraham insulted Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg's grades on Twitter. The Fox News host announced Saturday that she would be taking a "pre-planned vacation" amid the controversy.