Re: The Twitter Files
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:08 pm
Where I'm from, the locals are terrified of libertarians. Democrats, Republicans, they can understand. Libertarians are a huge boogeyman for some reason.
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Where I'm from, the locals are terrified of libertarians. Democrats, Republicans, they can understand. Libertarians are a huge boogeyman for some reason.
Nobody likes libertarians. It is our lot in life.Jack Jones wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:08 pmWhere I'm from, the locals are terrified of libertarians. Democrats, Republicans, they can understand. Libertarians are a huge boogeyman for some reason.
Well... don't get yourself too invested in potential outcomes.Maddy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 12:39 pm Holy smoke, it's all broken wide open. There is absolutely no surviving this by the dems. They're done. Right now.
https://rumble.com/v27yyq2-joe-biden-is ... n&mc=6kk5f
Especially when you consider who controls the majority of what is told to the masses. And the masses who don't give a crap about right, wrong, or the shady pols, e.g. the masses who only care about unicorns and rainbows.flyingpylon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:47 pmWell... don't get yourself too invested in potential outcomes.Maddy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 12:39 pm Holy smoke, it's all broken wide open. There is absolutely no surviving this by the dems. They're done. Right now.
https://rumble.com/v27yyq2-joe-biden-is ... n&mc=6kk5f
yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:17 pmOr, maybe first there should be a grand review of what should be "classified"? I think I've read more opinion that too much is classified and none that there is not enough. Perhaps the default is to just declare it classified?
Ambitious media frauds Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair crippled the reputations of the New Republic and New York Times, respectively, by slipping years of invented news stories into their pages. Thanks to the Twitter Files, we can welcome a new member to their infamous club: Hamilton 68.
If one goes by volume alone, this oft-cited neoliberal think-tank that spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines and TV news segments may go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history. Virtually every major news organization in America is implicated, including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and the Washington Post. Mother Jones alone did at least 14 stories pegged to the group’s “research.” Even fact-checking sites like Politifact and Snopes cited Hamilton 68 as a source.
Hamilton 68 was and is a computerized “dashboard” designed to be used by reporters and academics to measure “Russian disinformation.” link
This was not faulty science. 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. As Roth put it, “Virtually any conclusion drawn from [the dashboard] will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.”
That last bit will be familiar to anyone who's read Ryan Holiday's book Trust Me I'm Lying, or heard Tim Pool explain how news media intentionally lies.Even at Twitter, where there were basically no open conservatives in the email record, it was recognized that Hamilton 68 (and at least two other research institutes using similar methodology) were simply taking organic Trumpish chatter and describing it as Russian scheming.
The site “falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots,” as Roth put it, getting “traction around partisan trends, to assert that any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots.”
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News organizations had fallen in love with a new trick: research institute makes invented bot claims, reporters toss said claims at hated targets like Devin Nunes or Tulsi Gabbard, headlines flow. The scam needed just three elements: credentials of someone like “former FBI agent” Watts, the absence of any semblance of fact-checking, and the silence of companies like Twitter.
In what timeframe? Reminds me of the saying “markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”. At some point it no longer matters. Seems like there’s a lot of that going around these days.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:44 am It might take a while for this knowledge to percolate through (it will definitely be fought by corporate media/Democratic Party), but I think eventually most people will come to grips with it.