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Predictable far-right responses to the situation of @MSF_Sea and @SOSMedFrance's ship #Aquarius.

Gab and 4chan have worked out how to use vessel trackers...
Predictable sentiment on those channels, too.

Sink the #Aquarius, wish rape and death on the crew...
Plenty of hostile replies to posts from those reporting on it, such as @AnneliseBorges, too.

Faceless accounts, few followers, "fakes," "scum" and other epithets.
Interestingly, these three all mix English and Dutch-language posts. The English is non-native.
So far, retweets of posts by @MSF_Sea far outnumber troll posts. (Most popular post, from @HarrysLastStand, dates to before the latest row.)

One to watch.
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Thread, in the interest of there being a clear record:

Sputnik has made a number of false statements about me.

This matters, because facts still matter.

Evidence follows. Will a retraction follow too?

cc @SputnikInt
1. Sputnik said I have "no discernible history" in political journalism.

In fact, I was EU and NATO correspondent for @dpa_intl. That fact is discernible, because it's in my Atlantic Council bio.

atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/…
More: Sputnik +quoted+ my bio in the same article, and provided the link.

Looks like @SputnikInt either:

a) didn't read it;
b) didn't understand it;
or
c) chose to suppress a material fact.
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Ha, looks like I really pissed off the Kremlin "information weapon" (to quote its own editor-in-chief).

They hate it when someone reveals how they work by citing actual evidence.
Looks like this is what triggered them. @thetimes on the role of Sputnik's parent company, which is to "secure the interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere."

Sputnik claims that doesn't apply to them. Seriously.

H/t @macca808

thetimes.co.uk/article/edinbu…
Source for that quote? The founding charter of the Rossiya Segodnya agency, which is Sputnik's parent.

Evidence here: medium.com/dfrlab/putinat…
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Aaaand it's takedown time in #Bangladesh too.

@Twitter and @Facebook both just announced takedowns of a small number of inauthentic assets, possibly tied to state actors.

Some initial analysis with the great @karankanishk here, for @DFRLab:

medium.com/@DFRLab/electi…
Here's @TwitterSafety's take on it: a small number of assets, possibly state-linked.

15 accounts so far, low follower numbers, engaged in coordinated platform manipulation.

And here's @fbnewsroom: six accounts, nine pages. Taken down for coordinated inauthentic behaviour, i.e. a network of counterfeit accounts.

"Linked to individuals associated with the #Bangladesh government."

newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/t…
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Interesting how people of colour are being discarded from the narrative in the rise of the far-right. Muslims, immigrants, and people of colour are the main targets of the far-right, their entire political ideologies are rooted in the oppression of these groups, yet, silence -
About the fact that people of colour, ESPECIALLY women of colour in politics are increasingly abused and disproportionally targeted by the far-right. It's a national disgrace that Anna Soubry was targeted, yet when researches found that Diane Abbott was the most abused woman in -
Britain, receiving 30,000 abusive messages in the space of a few months, it was met with silence. White journalists and politicians are targeted for their political views regarding immigration, race, religion, etc,but when are we going to talk about the abuse of these particular-
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Most of the proposed responses to climate change don't fundamentally address one of the largest sources and solutions to the situation: restoring soil through regenerative agriculture and grazing. Current agriculture is rapidly causing soil to lose carbon- and this is _fixable_
the numbers vary as the destruction of soils is so backgrounded that it has only recently been brought into international discussions. But the levels of carbon storage in living biological soils are enormous.
but it is reasonable to attribute 30-60 ppm of the problem to soil loss which opens up a big realization: the WAYS we've used oil is as big of an issue as the use itself. how have we used it? by combing over the world's carbon storage every April.
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The GOP is ready, willing, able & actively engaged in covering up Trump crimes & corruption. We question their motives all the time. The base? Kompromat?

How about their ongoing joint DATA collection/usage?

Some thoughts via URL forensics.

[THREAD]
A list like this should inspire articles of impeachment
But has it inspired even 1 change of heart among GOP leaders?

Mind-boggling to watch them stand by their man w/this resume/rap sheet given risk this strategy poses to the future of their party..

axios.com/newsletters/ax…
They've assessed the situation -- "risk" is better than "(certain) doom"

The RNC & loyal Trump R's known that exposing Trump will result in the latter⏫

B/c the entire Republican party apparatus is tied to the Trump Train-- & tied deepest through DATA.

nymag.com/daily/intellig…
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This troll has published a thread attacking @Femi_Sorry for his video on EU democracy. I don’t like feeding trolls, but this one is getting attention for the wrong reason and his thread deserves detailed rebuttal. It’s a staggering tissue of lies and half-truths.
The EU always consults national govts in areas where it has exclusive competence. It does this through the “comitology” process - a network of committees in which member state governments advise, consult, and manage the EU civil service in its work.
When it comes to actually legislating in areas of exclusive competence, in the vast majority of all cases the Member States (Council) and elected MEPs are the legislators acting on a proposal from the Commission.
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(THREAD) This is Part 2 of a thread on "True Pundit," the fake-news website—launched by a former FBI agent—that helped swing the 2016 election to Trump by blackmailing James Comey into reopening the Clinton email investigation just before Election Day. Hope you'll read and share.
1/ In Part 1 of this thread (see below), I discussed how a former FBI agent calling himself "Thomas Paine" launched the fake-news website True Pundit on the same day in June 2016 Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort met with Kremlin agents at Trump Tower Moscow.
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