How diehard Trump fans transformed their Twitter accounts into bots which spread conspiracies in a vast Russia-style disinformation network

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• Twitter suspended what appeared to be a network of pro-Trump activists using an app called Power10 to boost their messaging.
• Using this app, these users were able to effectively turn their accounts into bots — automated amplifiers of posts — some of which Twitter has banned for attempting to distort political conversations online. 
• The app exposes a flaw in Twitter's ability to enforce its anti-disinformation and spamming policies, experts have said. 
• The tool boosted messages by President Donald Trump and his allies, as well as members of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. 
• The tool was built by GOP operative Jason Sullivan, a protege of Roger Stone, who promoted it on social media. 
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A loophole in Twitter's anti-spamming safeguards allowed users to covertly flood the platform with disinformation and conspiracy theories for years, a Business Insider investigation has found. 

In an operation apparently masterminded by Jason Sullivan — an associate of Donald Trump's former adviser Roger Stone — supporters of the president were encouraged to deploy an app called Power10. 

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