US Election: The truth about a Twitter conspiracy theory

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: