#Disinformation

Taylor Owen

taylor_owen

We have just launched our report about the media ecosystem and mis/disinformation in the 2019 Canadian Federal election. What follows is a mega thread detailing our methods, findings and some

Steve Schmidt

SteveSchmidtSES

It is Tuesday evening and America is being smothered under a toxic fog of lies, conspiracy theories, false accusations, demagoguery and crackpottery. These things are true. USA is the epicenter

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

THIS.I have news for @SpeakerPelosi and @RepJerryNadler: the Obama administration banked on HRC winning in choosing to delay taking action against Russian election interference. In doing so, they actually helped

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

The FBI has issued a PSA that election results may take weeks or days to certify, and the malign actors will take advantage of this gap to sow disinformation, including

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Election IntegrityThis question came to me through the “Ask Teri” tab on my blog Short answer: Yes there is oversight. Elections are regulated by statute, and the statutes provide

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Please remember, Giuliani's closest partner in Ukraine for propagating various crazy, unsubstantiated stories is Andrii Derkach, who was sanctions by the TRUMP administration! https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1118#.X4nO_2

Jeff Seldin

jseldin

NEW: US intelligence officials are on the lookout for foreign actors to use the growing #GeorgeFloyd protests to target the country"We certainly anticipate that our adversaries may attempt to exploit

Renee DiResta

noUpside

I’ve alluded a bit to how Mikovits was boosted for weeks as part of a book promotion effort before her breakout "success” in the Plandemic clip. The NYT's @daveyalba breaks

Darius Kazemi

tinysubversions

This MIT Tech Review article from May is making the rounds again. It was based on a press release from CMU with no study to back it up. It is

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

This is just like 2016 - Trump & his thugs act in concert with the Russians. They don't need to "collude" through communication - they know exactly what the other

First Draft

firstdraftnews

Knowing the exact time that something was posted can help you verify content on social media. Each platform has a different way of displaying dates and times. This thread will

JIM ROY

jimroy

This book examines what I consider the most important hypotheses and theories within the biggest story of our entire human history. That story is about extraterrestrials (ETs) and the “cosmic

Silicon Valley DSA 🤖🌹

SV_DSA

Live thread starting now! Previous tweets from earlier in the meeting here: https://twitter.com/nismatch/status/1275248218679308289 https://twitter.com/SV_DSA/status/1275145381051904000 Council is discussing a proposal to create a permittin

John Paul Tasker

JPTasker

Speaking on a panel about "Protecting Canadians’ Health" at #LPC21, Health Minister Patty Hajdu said "she's eternally grateful that our country had a Liberal government" at the onset of this

Trish Zornio

trish_zornio

Trump’s 2016 Cambridge Analytica leak is exactly the insidious political microtargeting we’ve been up against for years, including @SenCoryGardner’s 2014 upset win. Here’s how Republicans & foreign ops have manipulated

Sage 🏳️‍🌈

MSageGustafson

This is problematic: a thread First, it is false. Or at least, there is no source that allows for any verification that it is true. False information is problematic on