The hashtag "Go Hillary" strangely shot to the top of Twitter's US trends list on Sunday.
Strangely,
because it happened in the immediate wake of potentially very damaging
revelations about the Democratic candidate's emails.
News broke on Friday that the FBI had learned of fresh emails
which might be pertinent to a prior investigation into Hillary
Clinton's use of a private email server. The story dominated news cycles
over the weekend.
In the absence of much positive news at all for
the Democratic candidate, supporters of Donald Trump smelled something
fishy and many insisted "Go Hillary" was an artificial trend boosted by
Twitter itself. Trump himself seemed to pick up on the idea, tweeting out: