42.“Disinformation studies” has mostly become a con, where non-experts mesmerize reporters with what one former GEC staffer calls “hairball” charts, usually measuring something idiotic – like who follows two Chinese diplomats, or shares an Iranian “FREE PALESTINE” meme.
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43. The Washington Examiner just profiled a GEC-funded NGO in the UK that algorithmically scores media outlets by "risk."
How does downranking the Daily Wire to help the New York Times get more ad revenue counter “foreign” disinformation?
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44.An IG report shows GEC was initially obligated $98.7 million, of which roughly $80 million came from the Pentagon. It reportedly gave to at least 39 different organizations, whose names were redacted.
Why is this list secret?
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45. Twitter comms official Ian Plunkett wrote years ago that “misinformation, like [countering violent extremism, or CVE] before it, is becoming a cottage industry.”
Disinformation is the counterterrorism mission, rebranded for domestic targets.
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Disinformation is the counterterrorism mission, rebranded for domestic targets.
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46. Reauthorization for GEC’s funding is up for a vote this year. Can we at least stop paying to blacklist ourselves?
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47. The #TwitterFiles were prepared by a third party, so material may have been left out. Thanks to our team, we’ll have more on this all month.
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48. NOTE: Just before publication, Graham Brookie of DFRLab wrote to clarify about the 40,000 India names: “We didn’t publish this from a former researcher because we lacked confidence in its findings.”
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49. I asked Brookie if he’d made this lack of confidence clear to the Reuters reporter whose story based on that research is still live and uncorrected online:
https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-accounts-india-idINKCN1RD1R2
He hasn’t replied.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-accounts-india-idINKCN1RD1R2
He hasn’t replied.
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50. For more on these and other #TwitterFiles topics, our team will be testifying in the House on Thursday, March 9, at 10 a.m. We're humbled and grateful to Jim Jordan and JudiciaryGOP for the invitation.
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TWITTER FILES NOTE: Some are complaining that the link to the DRFLab's "India List" isn't working. Here it is again. It's a huge file and takes a while to load:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTU3__csFVoZD9DKuIc7Hcb_nyUrtiOd2p1NU_r6ZcWh9dlvYQ7KknxjJKfe6k7fhrIqQcLDWpOqwDY/pubhtml
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTU3__csFVoZD9DKuIc7Hcb_nyUrtiOd2p1NU_r6ZcWh9dlvYQ7KknxjJKfe6k7fhrIqQcLDWpOqwDY/pubhtml
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Everything Snowden said makes perfect sense now. Every conservative knows that blank stare when you tell a Democrat the truth. Or even worse that elitist smirk. They think news outside of the NYT is a lie. When confronted with the truth like Twitter Files, they laugh. Insane!
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IN TWITTER’S IN-BOX:
June 22, 2021, from Dataminr Digest, which sent “disinfo” alerts to over 650 newsrooms
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June 22, 2021, from Dataminr Digest, which sent “disinfo” alerts to over 650 newsrooms
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I still believe the Twitter Files DO PROVE that the Government was conspiring with social media in order to have the outcome they wanted in the election.
Do you???
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