Trump personally thanked fake Twitter account linked to Russia

 Among the dozens of fake Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts run out of Russia revealed by Russian publication RBC earlier this week,  one may have caught the eyes of political journalists. The @TEN_GOP  account, the largest fake Twitter account run out of Russia that was  uncovered by RBC, had become something of a conservative gadfly on  Twitter. With nearly 150,000 followers, The Daily Beast described the account – which called itself the “Unofficial Twitter of Tennessee Republicans” – as “an influential pro-Trump” account. Twitter, however, recently suspended the account, along with  @ELEVEN_GOP – another account revealed by RBC as Russian. The  @ELEVEN_GOP account, sharing the same profile picture as @TEN_GOP, described itself as the “back-up account” for @TEN_GOP. 

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