Sound Familiar Herrera? "Mexico's Bogus Twitter Armies"

[don Gabacho]

by Tim Johnson

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Moments before the presidential debate began Sunday night, social
network coordinators of candidate Enrique Pena Nieto got together to
coordinate spamming Twitter with favorable comments.

One of the coordinators taped a minute or so of the meeting on his or
her cell phone and posted it to YouTube. Roughly, here is what the chief
organizer said:

"We are about to start the presidential debate. We already have the team
here, we're organized, and everyone has their coordinator, but now we
need to get to work..."

"We have two hashtags. All negatives should be turned around
immediately. Then please! All are in line with their coordinators. We
have to tweet all at the same time using the hashtag #EsmomentodeMexico.
And we must re-tweet the candidate. Your account is @EPN, in case anyone
does not know."

In effect, the mediosyciudadanos.com website notes that it was obvious
that many Twitter users backing Pena Nieto were using exact phrasing, in
one case posting: �Josefina is falling apart� in reference to ruling
party candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota.

Before anyone gets too worked up over this amping up of the message,
know that political operatives from all sides are doing tricks on the
public.

The website notes that this week it�s become clear that operatives have
set up fake Twitter accounts for Aristegui Noticias, which has nothing
to do with the prominent journalist Carmen Aristegui, and fake accounts
for the Milenio, El Universal and Reforma newspapers.

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