"What the 38-year-old former Army sergeant did next landed him in the center of an online storm accusing him of being a traitor, "Cyber Rambo" and, in some conspiracy theories, an agent of the Army's Cyber Command trying to topple foreign governments. Suarez saw claims of a coup by Morales supporters as their own form of misinformation, so he wrote a 25-line code algorithm that would retweet anti-Morales posts. It was, he said, something that "any programming student could have done." It worked. - The algorithm managed to cycle more than 13,000 retweets in just a few days, at one point managing 69 tweets per second. And that little algorithm thrust Suarez into the midst of online accusations, conspiracy theories and headline news across major media outlets focusing on Latin America."