Let's talk about why Shireen Mitchell and Mutale Nkonde were both running #MoveOn-supported campaigns in similar time frames.
👉🏿Genesis and nemesis in #ADOS smears?
But today, let's focus on the @DIGITALSISTA, Shireen, and her @StopOVAW 🗳️voting campaign!
Shireen Mitchell doesn't want to be blamed for any affiliation with Harvard's "Disinformation Creep" retracted article.
But she has a history & connection with the lead author and funder, #MoveOn.
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SEPTEMBER 2021
Shireen admitted that down-ballot 🗳️was a voter suppression strategy---familiar language. This was around the time when Disinformation Creep was under post-publication review.
Let's go down a timeline of her voter suppression campaigns that led up to #MoveOn.
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Let's rewind ⏪ to 2019 at the Big Disinfo 2020 event, hosted by Columbia Journalism School.
POST: Mutale exciting times ahead---
FULL VIDEO:
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DECEMBER 8, 2019
Two days prior, Shireen participated in an MSNBC
Interview with Joy Reid.
JOY REID POST:
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
Two months after Joy Reid's interview and the Big Disinfo 2020 event, Shireen and Mutale went from "late" audience member and panelist to facilitator and panelist at a race & disinformation conference at CUNY, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
JANUARY 7, 2020
Shireen Mitchell's SOVAW organization launched a digital voter suppression REPORT:
A threat to an American Democracy:
Digital Voter Suppression
A key influence in the 2020 election
👉🏾MUTALE NKONDE is quoted in the press release,
stoponlinevaw.com/media/press-re…
SEPTEMBER 3-4, 2020
Shireen's SOVAW launched an official CAMPAIGN and HASHTAG: #stopdigivotersuppression
#MoveOn is sourced as an endorser. But let's move on. We got a report, campaign, endorsement, hashtag. What's next?
🔗prweb.com/releases/new_i…
SEPTEMBER 2020
Shireen Mitchell's SOVAW launched a TOOLKIT for its Digital Voter Suppression campaign seeking memberships, partnerships, and volunteer reporters.
Guess, who's listed on the Partnership Fact Sheet & Toolkit? #MoveOn
@DigitalSista 👀
stoponlinevaw.com/stop-digital-v…
AUGUST 2021
@DigitalSista wasn't too pleased that Harvard & other entities used a "mirror image" of her 2020 SOVAW report that mentions #ADOS.
🧐Look at the Stop Digital Voter Suppression & SOVAW background.
Why reference Harvard if you want no affiliation with the retraction?
FALL 2020
Shireen Mitchell & Mutale Nkonde were both running #MoveOn-supported campaigns against the #ADOS movement.
#StopDigiVoterSuppression ran from September 3 - November 12---picked up a new partner.
#VoteDownCovid ran from MoveOn's account October 23rd to election date.
JANUARY 2021
Shireen Mitchell or @DigitalSista,
You are referenced in Disinformation Creep for a reason. It is the same reason half of the writers are affiliated with #MoveOn.
Your relationships with Mutale Nkonde and #MoveOn makes you directly accountable!
REWIND:⏪
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Shireen Mitchell & Deen Freelon spreading the Russian operative narrative on Vox Media
👉🏾Deen Freelon is an Editorial Board Member of Harvard's Misinformation Review who posted & retracted the #CrimsonSmear against #ADOS
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*Correction - Visual has 2020 tweets, but has 2021 posted. The only 2021 reference was Mutale's picture.
Clarity Correction: Shireen's role at Big Disinfor was panelist.
Big Disinfo: Mutale came in as a late audience member, according to people in the #ADOS movement who attended, and the video.
CUNY Event: Mutale was referenced as a facilitator by writer, Nadine White.
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