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#TrollTracker 1/: Mike Pompeo's @instagram posts have been relentlessly spammed by accounts posting duplicate anti-American comments ever since he announced the Poland summit on January 11.
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#TrollTracker 2/: Most accounts were rarely ever active before the announcement came, @hall__melissa and @KaranKanishk find. A spurt in activity following the announcement indicates they were part of coordinated effort to counter the summit's anti-Iran narrative.
#TrollTracker 3/: The team studied one particular post in which Pompeo praised the president's #SOTU speech. Four of the most frequently commenting accounts on the post have profiles extremely similar to each other—indicative of puppet account behavior.
#TrollTracker 4/: Can you guess what the top comment on the post was?

Original post: instagram.com/p/BthqHezAH2w/
#TrollTracker 5/5: Another tell-tale behavior of the coordinated effort among accounts that show a clear affinity for Iran was the use of Iranian flag emojis. More than fifty percent of the comments on the post came with the emoji.
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