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Sierra Leone’s first lockdown began on September 19, 2014. Immediately, on that day, bots began posting hundreds of thousands of tweets about Sierra Leone’s “Ebola lockdown” in virtually identical language, nearly all receiving zero likes.

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The next day, the bots continued to post hundreds of thousands of tweets supporting Sierra Leone’s “Ebola lockdown,” virtually all again receiving zero likes. By the end of Sierra Leone’s lockdowns in March 2015, the bots had posted millions of tweets about “Ebola lockdown.”

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https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/bombshell-template-to-export-lockdowns

Bombshell: Template to Export Lockdowns Existed by 2014 Bots supported Sierra Leone’s unprecedented lockdowns in 2014 and 2015 with millions of posts specifically using the word “lockdown.” michaelpsenger.substack.com