TWITTER FILE #15—MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD
Twitter Files #15: MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD
(Matt Taibbi - 01/27/2023)
Twitter File #15: In Twitter File #15, Mr. Taibbi discloses how Hamilton 68, which was allegedly devised to ferret out interference by other governments, such as Russian, China, or Iran, falsely accused many conservative Twitter accounts of being Russian bots (Remember that a bot is software application used to simulate human activity or conversation, most often on social media). Specifically, Yoel Roth, formerly Twitter Exec states in an email that “a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts” were accused of being Russian bot only because the Hamilton 68 dashboard labeled them as such. (1) In another email, Roth said that “Virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.” (2)
Hamilton 68 Dashboard was created by Clint Watts, former RBI counterintelligence official/current MSNBC contributor. It was funded by Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD). It claims to be a tool to “track Russian Disinformation on Twitter.” (3) Interestingly, the board is made up of former heads of the CIA, NSA, and DHS, as well as John Podesta.
Among other stories that Hamilton 68 claimed were being pushed by these alleged Russian bots, which were truly conservative accounts, were terms like “Deep State” and various hashtags.
Twitter in reviewing the allegations made by the articles put out by Hamilton 68, were never able to find any evidence as to the accused accounts as being Russians bots. Instead, they found that the accounts were actually held by true Americans, Canadian, and Britons. Says Mr. Taibbi, “ It 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.” (4) Many Twitter employees wanted to inform the accounts that they had been labeled as Russian and/or put out that they had investigated and discredited the claims by Hamilton 68, however, due to concerns of facing a politically stronghold such as ASD, it was decided they would not.
One account that eventually found out about being on the list, had actually written a book about the US Constitution and another likened it to McCarthyism.
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Further, Hamilton 68 smeared the stories related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the research done by Devin Nunes, and stories questioning the integrity of the Mueller investigation and Tulsi Gabbard, who the claimed was a foreign “asset.”
In the end, Twitter realized the result of the actions by Hamilton 68 would be to label any right-leaning content as being sourced by Russian bots.
This is a MUSTREAD Twitter Thread to see what despicable tactics Hamilton 68 stooped to in order to influence the narrative that the national media picked up and ran with endlessly. https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029772977455105?s=20&t=9-X5EZj68ccVt4V0ZBEIag
(1) https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029780179075073?s=20&t=9-X5EZj68ccVt4V0ZBEIag
(2) https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029782980890624?s=20&t=9-X5EZj68ccVt4V0ZBEIag
(3) https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-dashboard/
(4) https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029851146682368?s=20&t=9-X5EZj68ccVt4V0ZBEIag
(5) https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029887809122304?s=20&t=9-X5EZj68ccVt4V0ZBEIag