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A Moscow shop assistant cleans TV screens during a 2014 speech by Vladimir Putin. Photo: Dmitri Dukhanin/Kommersant via Getty Images

Back in August a Twitter user, “Conspirador Norteño,” began documenting an interesting pattern among certain folks posting alt-right messages. Here’s one user that fit the pattern.

Conspirador Norteño picked one user, DavidJo52951945, from this group — one of more than 60,000 in a network of similar users.

DavidJo52951945 went on a daily tear, writing over the years about Brexit, about Ukraine…