Yesterday RT/Russia Today published an article hyping a short paper purporting to demonstrate "no evidence" for anthropogenic climate change. Mockery of both @AOC's #GreenNewDeal proposal and @JayInslee's climate plan (via link) are included for good measure.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

We downloaded tweets linking to the RT climate change study article, resulting in 563 tweets from 526 accounts over the course of 21 hours. The retweets don't form a single network; rather, multiple accounts seem to have disseminated the story independently.

Who linked RT's article first? Two automated accounts: the second is @RT_com (official account), but an unrelated newsbot (@AndyVermaut) beat them to it.

(Yes, @FrankOuest's tweet (#14) appears to be calling anti-climate change measures a "demonic agenda". #QuestionMore)

Calling @AndyVermaut, the first account to tweet the article, high-volume is an understatement; this newsbot tweets an average of 1028 times per day. Most common sites linked are the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sputnik, and BBC