The latest edition of the Twitter FilesFocused onThe dubious sourceDemocrats and the media are heavily influenced by this. relied onTo sell the false narrative of Russian bot activities onThe platform.
Matt Taibbi, Substack writer, reported previously on top Democrats, such as California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff or Senator Dianne Feinstein and Connecticut Democratic Senate Richard Blumenthal, who kept promoting claims of significant Kremlin influence in public discourse despite being told the contrary by Twitter executives.
On Friday, Taibbi did aDeep dive into their lives sourceHamilton 68 aSo-called “dashboard” which purportedly monitored Russian bot activity.
Hamilton 68, wasClint Watts (ex-FBI Special Agent and MSNBC Contributor) was the man behind this initiative. wasOperated by Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD). a”Neoliberal Think Tank” was established in 2017 with an advisory committee that includes Clinton ally John Podesta as well as former Obama-era acting CIA Director Michael Morrell and former Obama official Michael McFaul.
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Clint Watts (former FBI special agent, current MSNBC contributor) was the Hamilton 68 dashboard’s leader.
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Taibbi wrote Hamilton 68 “wasThe sourceThere were hundreds, if not thousands, of news stories on TV and in mainstream media during the Trump years.”
Behind the scenes however, TwitterHamilton 68 was savaged by executives, and they debated whether to publicly condemn ASD.
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“I think that we should just call this out.” onThe bulls – it is.” TwitterYoel Roth, then-head for trust and safety at the company, wrote an October 2017 email. He later wrote in January 2018 that the dashboard “falsely accused”. aSeveral legitimate right-leaning accounts that are Russian bots.
“Virtually any conclusion drawn out of it will be discussed in conservative circles on TwitterRoth wrote in February 2018: “And accuse them of being Russian.”
Former TwitterYoel Roth, Head of Trust and Safety wasHamilton 68 was a vocal opponent.
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“Hamilton 68 wasThe sourceFor stories about Russian bots pushing terms like ‘deep state’Taibbi tweeted hashtags like #FireMcMaster or #SchumerShutdown and #WalkAway.
Taibbi criticized Hamilton 68’s monitoring of “600” Russian-linked websites. TwitterAccounts but not publicly shared who was onThis is the complete list.
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“TwitterExecutives 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,” Taibbi wrote. “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.’”
“In layman’s terms, the Hamilton 68 barely had any Russians. In reality, the only thing that made the Hamilton 68 so special was its ability to communicate with Russians. a few RT accounts, it’s mostly full of ordinary Americans, Canadians, and British,” Taibbi wrote. “It was a scam. Hamilton 68 instead of trying to track how ‘Russian’ has influenced American attitudes simply collected aA handful of accounts mostly American and mostly real were described as organic conversations.
According to aRoth sent an email in January 2018, warning of an ethical dilemma Twitter had faced, writing “Real people need to know they’ve been unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse.”
Roth wrote in January 2018, “My recommendation is an ultimatum at this stage: either you release the lists or we do,”
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There were “internal worries” Twitter”About taking on”The politically connected Alliance for Securing Democracy”, per Taibbi.
“We must be careful about how hard we push back onASD publicly,” Emily Horne, the then-head TwitterGlobal policy communication, who would become aSpokesperson for President Biden’s National Security Council.
Carlos Monje, TwitterThe former director of public policy for ‘, now an aid to Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transporation wrote similar words: “I also have been frustrated in not calling Hamilton 68 more publically, but I understand that we have to play a longer game here.”
Matt Taibbi, Substack’s writer, has been leading the coverage of the Twitter FilesElon Musk has made this information public.
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TwitterHamilton 68 classified users as Russian stooges and they were never contacted. Many were shocked at the revelations made in exchanges with Taibbi. Dennis Michael Lynch, conservative commentator and Joe Lauria (Consortium News editor-inchief) were two of them.
“What makes this an important story is the sheer scale of the news footprint left by Hamilton 68’s digital McCarthyism,” Taibbi wrote. “Hamilton 68 wasAs a sourceRussian influence was asserted in an incredible array of news stories: Support for Brett Kavanaugh or Devin Nunes memo. Parkland shooting. Manipulation of black voters. ‘attacks’ on the Mueller investigation… 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.”
Taibbi continued, “Twitter didn’t have the guts to out Hamilton 68 publicly but did try to speak to reporters off the record… Again, even Roth, like most TwitterExecs, a fervent Democratic partisan, saw the Hamilton scheme as a way to lead people ‘to assert that any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots.’”
Mother Jones, Politico, The Washington Post and Politico were just a few of the media outlets that declined to comment on Taibbi’s story.
Taibbi called out Harvard, Princeton, New York University (NYU), and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner who raised Hamilton 68. a source.
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This was the 16th installment. Twitter FilesThe, which was published in December, addresses various controversies surrounding the tech giant, such as the suppression and banning of Hunter Biden’s 2020 laptop story, shadowbanning, and the decision to ban President Trump.
TwitterElon Musk, the CEO, chimed in to discuss the latest files. onMSNBC: The public is being misled!”
Joseph A. Wulfsohn a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
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