Botnet Attack on President Trump

When President Trump announced he had Covid-19 on Oct 2 2020 what appears to be an coordinated inauthentic behavior's (CIB) bot attack trolled his account with Amharic text in what appeared to be personally attacking him.

Now that Elon Musk has reinstated the account we can run the Amharic speaking bots through 5th Column. We could keep going but the three accounts below spell out the point that CIB probably was used against President Trump's Twitter account.

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

What is 5th Column

The 5th Column platform is an is an artificial intelligence that detects bots or inauthentic accounts on social media. It is designed to track advertising fraud where up to 32% of digital spend is lost. It will be operational during the Voice Referendum. It was originally developed in 2021 when the Pentagon was attacked on social media by the Russian made SANA botnet during the Myanmar coup.

The 5th Column algorithm utilizes a scoring system to determine whether a user is a human, a bot, or falls into the ambiguous gray area. A score of 0 indicates a high probability of the user being a human, while a score of 1 suggests a high likelihood of the user being a bot.

If an account is regularly engaging with bots then their score may tend to be high even if they are actually a human.

What is our position?

Internet 2.0 does not have a stated political position as we see ourselves as bipartisan. We have not been paid by any political party or campaign. We are pro-democracy.

We suggest social media companies should remove bots and monitor for CIB. We suggest people should have to verify they are a citizen of the country they are actively engaging in the political debate of.