Twitter Supresses #ClintonBodyCount, then #TrumpBodyCount Starts Trending

Actress Mindy Robinson tweeted something after the Epstein death this morning highlighting a tale of two trending tags. One was about a hashtag that starting trending not long after the first reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide this morning, #ClintonBodyCount. Perhaps people were making implications, joking or otherwise, that somehow Bill and Hillary Clinton were connected to Epstein’s death.

Ironically enough, that trend went away and up popped up #TrumpBodyCount instead, even though it showed as having much fewer tweets. Is Twitter manipulating the trends? It’s hard to say for sure.

SEE TWEET FROM @iheartmindy BELOW:

My God, they’re already covering it up. Twitter has completely replaced the hashtag #ClintonBodyCount with #TrumpBodyCount on the trending newsfeed even though the numbers were higher.

The media bias is UNREAL at this point. pic.twitter.com/38QBO7HBIB

— Mindy Robinson ?? (@iheartmindy) August 10, 2019

The tweet from Robinson Shows that The #ClintonBodyCount was trending with 69K Tweets and had been removed from the trending sidebar and then showed #TrumpBodyCount with less than 20K Tweets.

The #ClintonBodyCount seems to have been removed from trending because of Accounts labeled as TrollBots with what is labeled as fake tweets using the #ClintonBodyCount.

SEE TWEET FROM @cbouzy BELOW:

Using TweetDeck and the Bot Sentinel Chrome browser extension, you can see how trollbots are amplifying the #ClintonBodyCount hashtag.

Note: Tweets with red text are from trollbot accounts https://t.co/q6RRerFIan is tracking in real-time. pic.twitter.com/S2eOCv7RoU

— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) August 10, 2019

However, if you search #ClintonBodyCount it still shows as a trending tag.