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Tweet is somebody writing communism defined. See the response there . You see the little avatar . Thats Joe Mccarthys face. Joe mccarthys face on the twitter account, if you tweeted anything that said socialism or communism or socialist communist, that joe mccarthy beyond the grave twitter account would tweet back and you and it had tweet at you Something Like this creeping socialism. Or it would say communist infiltrated. He was also good at terrible puns. He would say, for example, on your marx. This one is pretty good. Quit stalin. That twitter account was not senator joe mccarthy tweeting ...

This one is pretty good. Quit stalin. That twitter account was not senator joe mccarthy tweeting from beyond the grave, instead of the robot j. Mccarthy, it was a bot, a twitter bot. There wasnt, in fact, a person who was reading every twitter message sent around the world looking for the world communism or communist and then writing back with a quit stalin pun. There wasnt a person doing that. It was an automated thing. It was a robot, an automated account that was programmed to notice any twitter mentions of socialism or communism and then it would automatically spit out one of these funny p...

This creeping socialism. Or it would say communist infiltrated. He was also good at terrible puns. He would say, for example, on your marx. This one is pretty good. Quit stalin. That twitter account was not senator joe mccarthy tweeting from beyond the grave, instead of the robot j. Mccarthy, it was a bot, a twitter bot. There wasnt, in fact, a person who was reading every twitter message sent around the world looking for the world communism or communist and then writing back with a quit stalin pun. There wasnt a person doing that. It was an automated thing. It was a robot, an automated accoun...

The other piece of puzzle was this news from mcclatchy, news from the counterintelligence investigation looking into the trump campaign since july of last year, according to mcclatchy sources, that investigation includes investigation specifically into the russian use of bots and trolls, to spread pro-trump/anti-clinton news online both of the real variety and of the madeup variety. gregor don is a national correspondent for mcclatchy news. he co-bilined that with peter stone of mcclatchy. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> what got you going on this story? were you following...

Country last year. today donald trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort was mentioned by a house intelligence committee as a potential witness who should perhaps expect to appear before that committee in its investigation. the next thing we heard about paul manafort today after that was that paul manafort has now hired a crisis management public relations firm. that probably makes sense. the other piece of puzzle was this news from mcclatchy, news from the counterintelligence investigation looking into the trump campaign since july of last year, according to mcclatchy sources, that inve...