“Real people need to know they’ve been unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse,” Twitter exec Yoel Roth wrote.
The took a wonderful digital platform designed to share our thoughts and ideas and with the express assistance of the country’s most venerated intel agencies weaponized to destroy our freedoms, our country, our very way of life.
This is bombshell.
The FBI Director is openly bragging at the corrupt WEF about how much the FBI “partners” with Big Tech to censor the Free Speech of Americans
Apparently the Twitter Files didn’t scare them
The FBI seems quite proud of its tyranny https://t.co/t8TC4kq4lh
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 19, 2023
McCarthy was right.
1.THREAD: Twitter Files #15
MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD pic.twitter.com/bLRpDpuWql— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
2.“I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is.” pic.twitter.com/q2n6pCZRzv
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
3.“Falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots.” pic.twitter.com/EHRWACkZu4
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
4.“Virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.” pic.twitter.com/g7Ozzj4ST8
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
5.These are quotes by Twitter executives about Hamilton 68, a digital “dashboard” that claimed to track Russian influence and was the source of hundreds if not thousands of mainstream print and TV news stories in the Trump years. pic.twitter.com/KzCVBCm1hv
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
6.The “dashboard” was headed by former FBI counterintelligence official (and current MSNBC contributor) Clint Watts, and funded by a neoliberal think tank, the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD). pic.twitter.com/XW4JXfAlGM
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
7.The ASD advisory council includes neoconservative writer Bill Kristol, former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, ex-Hillary for America chief John Podesta, and former heads or deputy heads of the CIA, NSA, and the Department of Homeland Security. pic.twitter.com/Nug3CpF6iK
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
https://t.co/0yk0y7VlGX outlets for years cited Watts and Hamilton 68 when claiming Russian bots were “amplifying” an endless parade of social media causes – against strikes in Syria, in support of Fox host Laura Ingraham, the campaigns of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. pic.twitter.com/Qwf5UuKUkb
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
9.Hamilton 68 was the source for stories claiming Russian bots pushed terms like “deep state” or hashtags like #FireMcMaster, #SchumerShutdown, #WalkAway, #ReleaseTheMemo, #AlabamaSenateRace, and #ParklandShooting, among many others. pic.twitter.com/d9uM8bYWVe
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
10. The secret ingredient to Hamilton 68’s analytical method? A list: “Our analysis has linked 600 Twitter accounts to Russian influence activities online,” was how the site put it at launch. pic.twitter.com/8ipRLSfzOm
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
11. Hamilton 68 never released the list, claiming "the Russians will simply shut [the accounts] down." All those reporters and TV personalities making claims about “Russian bots” never really knew what they were describing. pic.twitter.com/q89kuDPIIH
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
12. Twitter executives were in a unique position to recreate Hamilton’s list, reverse-engineering it from the site’s requests for Twitter data.
Concerned about the deluge of Hamilton-based news stories, they did so – and what they found shocked them. pic.twitter.com/qRZyylALUe
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
13.“These accounts,” they concluded, “are neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots.”
“No evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of Russian information ops.”
“Hardly illuminating a massive influence operation.” pic.twitter.com/LMrgWVKe7k
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
14. In layman’s terms, the Hamilton 68 barely had any Russians. In fact, apart from a few RT accounts, it’s mostly full of ordinary Americans, Canadians, and British.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
https://t.co/om9vyL01e5 was a scam. Instead of tracking how “Russia” influenced American attitudes, Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
16. Twitter immediately recognized these Hamilton-driven news stories posed a major ethical problem, potentially implicating them.
“Real people need to know they’ve been unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse,” Roth wrote. pic.twitter.com/JSDowtPzHY
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
17.Some Twitter execs badly wanted to out Hamilton 68. After Russians were blamed for hyping the #ParklandShooting hashtag, one wrote:
“Why can’t we say we’ve investigated… and citing Hamilton 68 is being wrong, irresponsible, and biased?” pic.twitter.com/1Pl5MLG7qw
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
18.Yoel Roth wanted a confrontation. “My recommendation at this stage is an ultimatum: you release the list or we do,” he wrote.
However, there were internal concerns about taking on the politically connected Alliance for Securing Democracy. pic.twitter.com/Ejg1VcH73R
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
19.“We have to be careful in how much we push back on ASD publicly,” said future White House and NSC spokesperson Emily Horne. pic.twitter.com/BRZEESQZlT
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
20.“I also have been very frustrated in not calling out Hamilton 68 more publicly, but understand we have to play a longer game here,” wrote Carlos Monje, the future senior advisor to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. pic.twitter.com/JvfSkyUlfL
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
21. So the “legitimate people,” as one Twitter exec called them, never found out they’d been used as fodder for mountains of news stories about “Russian influence.” Because the #TwitterFiles contain the list, they’ve begun finding out.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
22.“I’m shocked,” says Sonia Monsour, who as a child lived through civil war in Lebanon. “Supposedly in a free world, we are being watched at many levels, by what we say online.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
23. “I’ve written a book about the U.S. Constitution,” says Chicago-based lawyer Dave Shestokas. “How I made a list like this is incredible to me.” pic.twitter.com/nJYekHzEIJ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
24. “When I was growing up, my father told me about the McCarthyite blacklist,” says Oregon native Jacob Levich. “As a child it would never have occurred to me that this would come back, in force and broadly, in a way… designed to undermine rights we hold dear.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
25. Even Twitter execs were stunned to read who was on the list. Wrote policy chief Nick Pickles about British comic @Holbornlolz: “A wind-up merchant… I follow him and wouldn’t say he’s pro-Russian… I can’t even remember him tweeting about Russia.” pic.twitter.com/kFCqyFjG0l
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
26. I’m listed as a foreign bot?” said conservative media figure Dennis Michael Lynch. “As a proud taxpaying citizen, charitable family man, and honest son of a U.S. Marine, I deserve better. We all do!” pic.twitter.com/HhKE9FPfpO
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
27. Consortium editor Joe Lauria too was angered to find he was on the list, which targeted voices across the spectrum: “Organizations like Hamilton 68 are in business to enforce an official narrative, which means excising inconvenient facts, which they call ‘misinformation.’” pic.twitter.com/KtRKiE7C7G
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
28.What makes this an important story is the sheer scale of the news footprint left by Hamilton 68’s digital McCarthyism. The quantity of headlines and TV segments dwarfs the impact of individual fabulists like Jayson Blair or Stephen Glass. pic.twitter.com/zfyjLb5Tkq
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
29.Hamilton 68 was used as a source to assert Russian influence in an astonishing array of news stories: support for Brett Kavanaugh or the Devin Nunes memo, the Parkland shooting, manipulation of black voters, “attacks” on the Mueller investigation… pic.twitter.com/GU9UCBLEeO
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
30.These stories raised fears in the population, and most insidious of all, were used to smear people like Tulsi Gabbard as foreign “assets,” and drum up sympathy for political causes like Joe Biden’s campaign by describing critics as Russian-aligned. pic.twitter.com/3lsuG1ZTrd
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
31.Incredibly, and ironically, these stories were also frequently used as evidence of the spread of “fake news” on sites like Twitter: pic.twitter.com/dyNZNRFIdH
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
https://twitter.com/realDennisLynch/status/1619036412233551873?s=20&t=RSrLIuIOgjyH_2UhRY17Qw
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Comcast just cut out Newmax.
Not as of right now.
It’s been cut…I no longer get it on direct tv.
Cut the cord and save a ton of money. Anyone who pays for propaganda is a moron. I have an exterior antenna and pick up about 75 free channels. I also stream tons of free content. RAV and Newsmax apps loaded on my Roku. Don’t pay for the OAN app, but watch OAN plus (dated) on Roku for free.
After my antenna was blown down several years ago, I hadn’t watched TV at all.
In our faces!!! They know they’ll suffer no consequences.
like any dishonest person, they can only hope no one discovers their subterfuge. Or, the thief. He steals,and tries to throw blame on someone else , and hopes he wont be discovered. When I was young,I admired the FBI,and wanted to be a “G man”, when I was old enough. My excuse is the ignorance of youth. I have no respect for them , now. zero,zilch,nada,nope, none what-so-ever.
This “Twitter” release supersedes all other revelations of inroads by the Communist Manifesto to seduce and control the freedom of speech established with the United States Constitution – By – ?: the comment “McCarthy was right” is directly attributal to the post World War Two infiltration of the British Spy Class into the U.S.A. _ The information about the cruelty placed on Senator Eugene McCarthy is available on Wikipedia – For Now – even to the unskilled examiner, such as I, approaching the information with an “Unclosed Mind”.
There are many consideration of action going forward. _However the # 1), should be __ Accountability __ The sell-outs, whether dupes or villains require an investigated accounting of their and there is many in the “Permanent Governments” of North America participation regardless of the extent and premise for involvement. _ The Church Investigation level is mandatory; the requirement is National Security; the need is at Defcom – POTUS # 1 – George Washington*. _ MikeSr.
[* introducing hyperbole in accordance with meme of rising above current need to move interest to the forefront. ]
Zuck ain’t no Musk!
What a load of crap!… Meta executive claims that they’ve always been politically neutral in their approach to “content modification” (censorship) of facebook posts. Suuuure…. Then why were the vast majority of the posts your fake-fact-checkers modified, censored and/or shadow-banned), conservatives?… Including little old me for the last five-years. Now they would have me (us) believe that their anti-1st Amendment tactics were applied without bias.
So, with the lifting of Trump’s facebook ban, have the folks over at Meta experienced a “come-to-Jesus moment”?… and now see the light? Nah… it’s far more likely that they’ve contracted a severe case of the “twitter-jitters” … and perhaps even worried about the avalanche of anti-1st amendment class-action lawsuits potentially coming their way. (Surely, their congressionally-legalized liability waiver that protects them from personal harm lawsuits does not include protection for 1st their Amendment violations and election meddling crimes.)
Sorry Meta – once you choose the wrong-side of history – there’s no coming back… no matter how much lipstick you try to apply retroactively to the pig you’ve allowed your once venerable platform to become.
My burning question is “What happened to the young, out-spoken, take-no-prisoners, anti-establishment, entrepreneurial rascal/rebel, Mark Zuckerberg – who effectively created the world’s first free and virtual social media platform from his University dorm? I never knew what his politics were back in his university days – but like most post-secondary school students, he was no doubt a leftie. (An assumption that would align with the age-old, time-tested adage, that “If you’re not a liberal in your twenties – you don’t have heart. But if you’re still a liberal in your forties – you don’t have a brain.”)
Of course there’s nothing unusual about a leftie university student. But how and when did MEZ become a compliant, left-wing, anti-free speech, Democratic Party sugar-daddy, free elections’ meddler and tool of the most corrupted deep-state law enforcement agency in the world? (Or less sinister, did he just take his eye-off-the-ball and allow his kool-aid-drinking inmates to overrun the asylum?)
Regardless of the reasons for his pitiful transformation, what a tragic story it is… going from the original creator of the digital public square to an Orwellian-like villain – moving from the “right-side” of history… to the “wrong-side” in less than a decade. Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that he was born in “1984”.
And sure Metanites… go ahead and censor this post. I’m pushing 70-years old… yet I’m betting that I’ll still be alive and kicking long after your police-state social-media platform is rendered irrelevant… or better still… “lying” dormant.
mlm/#legacyofpublicsquarecreatorcomesfullcircle
B@st@rds !!!