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Dec 21, 2022, 5 tweets

Anyone besides me wonder why Lee Fang chose not to screen cap this doc (especially given how #mattydickpics and Michael Smallberger have misrepresented Jim Baker screen caps)?

In fact, the very next tweet, which Fang DOES screen cap, shows a Jim Baker interlocutor raising concerns about bullshit from DOD. Only ... that's not how Fang portrays it.

Thus far EVERY purportedly scandalous twitter account that Elmo's pets have focused on were ... not what the pets claimed they were.

Here, Fang asks us to trust him that he's not as shoddy a journalist as his fellow Elmo-pets have been.

Why should we?

Show your work.

Anyway here's the Jim Baker email (which Fang links but does not screencap in his own piece).

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2346…

There seem to be two takeaways from this. It is ABSOLUTELY the case that Twitter treated DOD differently than Russia or Iran.

It is also the case that Elmo's Twitter is not sharing the very same secrets that Baker was speculating about and Elmo's twitter have left some up.

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