New fraud scandal revealed around Super League

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The Super Dish Liv was the Super Bowl LIV, the last 2019 season of the National Football League (NFL) in American Football. The video game in between the AFC Champ Kansas City Chiefs and also the NFC Champion San Francisco 49ers was hung on 2 February 2020 from 18:30 regional time (February 3, 0:30 CET) in Acid Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. The Kansas City Chiefs won the title with 31:20 as well as thus after 50 years for the second time. The Quarterback Patrick Mahomes from the Kansas City Chiefs was chosen Super Bowl MVP.

Despite great aspirations of some European top clubs, the founding of a Super League failed this year crashing. In the background, some forces tried in the background to influence the discussion around the Superior with unfair resources.

As can be seen from a published examination report of the company Pandemia Digital, in the course of the presentation of the Super League plans in April this year, with the help of artificially created social media accounts, it was tried to massively influence the public discourse. This reports the Spanish digital newspaper El Confidential, which is the report.

Alone on the short newspaper service Twitter would therefore have been a few hours several thousand news with the message The Super League is a good idea and will revolutionize football.

Immediately after the announcement, the hashtag Estamoscigopresi (DT.: We stand to you, president). This was used by around 7,000 accounts in 18,000 tweets. According to report a clear attempt, Real President Florentino Pérez, who probably supports the greatest advocates of the Super League. However, many of these accounts were created only hours earlier and had no single followers. Reserved accounts were located in Spain and Saudi Arabia.

Ten tweets in one second

In one case, the study turned out, an account exposed within just one second ten tweets — a thing of the impossibility and merely to create a so-called bot.

Many of the accounts that pronounced for the Super League ended with an eight-digit sequence of numbers. An indicator that it was created automatically, it says in the investigation report.

In addition to backing for the Super League was also tried to weaken the UEFA through a targeted campaign. When UEFA-Boss Aleksander Refer pronounced to punish the clubs involved, the hashtag Čeferin was trotted. Over 220,000 tweets were marked with this Hashtag — a large part of it also of automatically created accounts.