Roy Moore campaign doesn't know why Russian Twitter bots are following him

Judge Roy Moore is a big deal in Alabama — and also, apparently, in Russia. A swarm of Russian Twitter bots has suddenly followed the Republican front-runner in the special Alabama senate race, helping to increase his social media audience from about 27,000 followers on Friday to 47,000 on Monday.

But don’t call him Russian Roy just yet. The Moore campaign doesn’t understand the candidate’s sudden Soviet popularity and they’ve asked Twitter to investigate. “We had absolutely nothing to do with this,” Moore spokesman, Drew Messer, told the Montgomery Advertiser. “We’ve never purchased followers or dummy ads on Twitter.”