Facebook Friends: Monday Attack and Simon Hegelich

facebook friends: The chancellor is exterminating the German people, Hopkins posted, and later switching to German wrote that the country should throw out all Muslims, according to Hamilton Spectator. Elizabeth Hopkins isn't alone. Within hours of a truck plowing into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin, she turned her focus on a new target Angela Merkel. Since Monday night's attack, Merkel's Facebook page has been flooded with hundreds of negative comments, many written by accounts with just a handful or no visible Facebook friends. There's a lot of evidence to suggest that Merkel's the subject of an attempted massive attack, said Simon Hegelich, a political scientist at Munich's Technical University who has studied the manipulation of social networks. On Twitter, dozens of users who backed Donald Trump are now posting identical text and images targeting Merkel, suggesting they are robotic accounts so-called bots waging a larger attack. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.