"How the Russians Pretended to be Texans - and Texans believed them"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/10/17/how-the-russians-pretended-to-be-texans-and-texans-believed-them/?utm_term=.9058b8072f4e 

Hasty Generalization

"They seemed to think, for example, that Texans drank Dr. Pepper at all hours: while driving their giant trucks, while flying their Confederate battle flags, while griping about Yankees and liberals and vegetarians."

This is a hasty generalization that according to this article allowed Russians to convincingly pose as Texans to stir up the idea of secession amongst Texans. This Texan stereotype is a textbook definition of hasty generalization. The article claims that the Russians were able to effectively use a stereotype to convince millions of people of the authenticity of a website.

Begging the Question

"And then, in August, it was gone."

"Despite its claims of transparency, Facebook has effectively prevented the public from examining these posts and these pages. So far Heart of Texas remains the only example of a Russian account that I and other researchers managed to study in detail before Facebook pulled the rug out from underneath it."

Throughout the article, the author continually makes claims that read as if the basis of the article is a conspiracy theory. The author begs for the reader to draw the same conclusion that the Russians are fueling the Texan sentiment to secede from the United States. By the end of the article, readers are left to draw their own conclusions based on the author’s conjectures that at this point are self admittedly unable to be proven fact or fiction.