Twitter has removed as many as 5, 000 bot accounts tied to a network amplifying a message denouncing the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as a "RussiaGate" hoax, media report said.
Most of the accounts had few posts - - as less as three.
However, all the accounts frequently retweeted content from an account nameed @TheGlobus (previously 'Arabian Veritas'), according to information shared with NBC News by researchers who uncovered the network and analysis by Foreign Policy Research Institute senior fellow Clint Watts.
"We suspended a network of accounts and others associated with it for engaging in platform manipulation - - a violation of the Twitter Rules.