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Eric JN Ellason @SlickRockWeb
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The alt-right is in an interesting quandary. They want 2 argue #projectbirmingham, a small social media disinfo experiment by a handful of Dem activists affected the outcome in Alabama Senate race ...but not social media disinfo efforts by Russia, a nation state in 2016? #psyops
Some background on #projectbirmingham .... if everything from the original NYT story is true about this domestic disinfo campaign against #RoyMoore then yes I am against this as much as I am against what Russia did in the 2016 elections. #infosec #ALsen
NEW: This is a strong denial from the New Knowledge CEO Jonathan Morgan, including the part about the creation of fake Cyrillic Russian bots ... so someone has some explaining to do #ProjectBirmingham #infosec
Looking at the specific fingerprints in apparently the secret NYT document that @jeffgiesea broke describing #projectBirmingham, we couldnt find a single occurrence of the hashtag #nomoore in our partial archive of #Hamilton68 accounts. More unanswered ???
So how involved was Reid Hoffman and Jonathan Morgan of New Knowledge in #projectBirmingham via apparently a separate group called American Engagement Technologies? This WashPo reporting suggests some involvement but how much isn't clear #infosec #osint washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
So who is behind "American Engagement Technologies" which appears to be the group that wrote the report and possibly created the frankly very badly done fake Russian twitter bots and not @jonathonmorgan ?
As u might expect Russian leaning / influencer accounts that make up #Hamilton68 had a field day with #projectbirmingham news of a domestic disinfo campaign during the Roy Moore #ALsen race. We looked at the timing of the activity between Dec 27th & 28th & it peaked at 3:00 am
Since #Hamilton68 dashboard is currently down we did an update on our reversed engineered Hamilton68 accnts. Our subset of Russian geopolitics focused accnts ( 88 unique accnts) continue 2b focused on #Syria, unrest in France and #Ukraine. #Giletsjaunes was tops most recently
Our subset of #Hamilton68 troll accnts focused on US politics ( 170 unique accnts) continue 2b push the #buildthewall hashtag & the hashtag #gofundthewall from before Christmas has fallen out of favor. #fakenews jumped up and the Roy Moore & Alabama keywords made it on the board
We are starting to get a working theory on how the bot subsets (3 different ones in our #Hamilton68 grouping) that are potentially Russian controlled and include news / fakenews bots create a synergy with the troll / cyborg accounts.
In the Russian geopolitics focused subset the hashtags #manbij which appears to be Syria related was new and the hashtags #acte7 and #actevii which appear related to #giletsjaunes were new. These were the biggest newcomers to our #hamilton68 set of accounts.
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A fascinating thread ...dont think 4 a minute that the only propaganda / misinformation campaigns come from Russia ... there are plenty of domestic operations going on right now. In this case a Wall Street Hedge Fund manager posing as a #Bernie2020 acolyte
As @HoarseWisperer alertly posted, this Hedge Fund manager is running a disinfo / troll campaign against @ewarren and her supporters. If ur reasonably intelligent, I think you can figure out why a wallstreet Hedge Fund manager might be behind promoting #Bernie2020 #infosec
No idea right now how much of the "we want Bernie" tweets to @ewarren are from trolls, cyborgs and bots. Guessing like ourselves lots of other groups are scrambling to collect the data for analysis. #infosec #opsec #osint
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Given that a common modus operandi for Russian influencer #Hamilton68 accnts is to sow division & weaken US groups & political parties, the upcoming speaker of the House election & whether Rep. Nancy Pelosi would again get the nod seemed like an obvious target. #infosec #osint
Searching our archived tweet data on about 350 #Hamilton68 accounts, sure enough these accounts had been injecting themselves into the debate on the upcoming Pelosi election. One particular tweet to a simple thegatewaypundit.com article caught our eye.
Displayed here are some example Tweets pushing this simple video posting. What is displayed here are not necessarily verified #Hamilton68 accounts, many are just activist accounts. #infosec #osint
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Back on October 10th we got involved looking at a custom Twitter app called Tweetsquad that Ambassador Yakovenko at the Russian Embassy in London was using to promote embassy tweets. A tweet from @carolecadwalla attracted a number of #osint researchers
In the process of investigating this Tweetsquad app we identified some suspect accounts and @ChristinLuvsSno brought this account Leo Hawk @fractalhawk to our attention that appeared to be promoting Yakovenko tweets #osint #infosec
Analysis of @fractalhawk account had all the hallmarks of a Russian influenced #Hamilton68 Twitter account. #Hamilton68 accnts are Twitter accounts the German Marshall Fund has identified as Russian influenced propaganda accnts & many focus on US politics dashboard.securingdemocracy.org
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LinkedIn co-founder Billionaire Reid Hoffman has acknowledged that he partially funded a group that used disinformation tactics in Alabama’s 2017 special election in an effort to sink Republican candidate Roy Moore. - The Verge apple.news/AbK0l2dDIT5azk…
Last week, Facebook suspended five accounts linked to the operation for “engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior.” One of those accounts belonged to Jonathon Morgan, CEO of cybersecurity company New Knowledge. apple.news/AfATBT4U8RKqcv…
The group Hoffman backed financially, American Engagement Technologies, created misleading Facebook pages, urged Republicans in Alabama to support a write-in candidate instead of Roy Moore, and “created false evidence that bots were backing Moore on Twitter.”
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Alt-right culture jamming. medium.com/@erin_gallaghe…
Culture jamming is a form of social disruption that typically subverts corporate advertising and plays to people’s emotions in order to change some behavior and evoke cultural change, often associated with activism in the style of Ad Busters. /2
Enter /pol/ and the now ubiquitous red pill. /3
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Highlights fro #Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on foreign interference via social media platforms:

"Election interference from abroad represents an intolerable assault on the democratic foundation this republic was built on" per @SenatorBurr
"It's also important that the American people know that these activities neither began nor ended with the 2016 elections" per @SenatorBurr "Foreign actors continue an aggressive and pervasive influence campaign against the #UnitedStatesofAmerica"
Efforts like those id'd by @facebook "creating events on our streets w/real #Americans unknowingly participating" adds @SenatorBurr
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Why does Twitter deliberately target Right-wing accounts for Shadow-banning and why it will sooner rather than later completely back-fire and why they are ultimately going to destroy the Left and what a great day that will be. Thread. 1/15
It is no surprise Twitter targets accounts for “wrong think” or as we on the #Right like to call it “free-think” this is because of two events which are now totally and utterly inextricably linked, #Brexit and #Trump and the Establishment have been rocked to the core. 2/15
Neither of which were supposed to happen & yet they did now the Establishment is determined never to allow it to happen again or even at all, the reason for them happening was nothing to do with social media, but was to do with people knocking on doors and persuading others. 3/15
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Interesting CIA report from March saying that Russian social media bots helped drive main stream media coverage of false stories *and*’influenced American stock prices. 🤨

‘To Resist Disinformation Learn to Think like an Intelligence Analyst.’ cia.gov/library/center…
The article references this report by Clint Watts:

The Russians engage in ‘financial propaganda created to weaken confidence in financial markets, capitalist economies and Western companies.’

intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…
Mercer’s involvement in Brexit and with Nigel Farage get interesting on the night of Brexit. Nigel falsely conceded defeat. The pound crashed *and* ‘ Bloomberg noted that his “concessions” that night could have helped hedge funds make millions... 1/2
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Today, I'd like to talk about Common Right wing/ Alt-right Postings that you run across on Twitter.
I'll explain a bit about the origin.
And I'll explain the lack of validity/ basis in reality, from conception to regurgitation.

I'm just going to abbreviate it as C.R.A.P.
Now, I realize that some of you might not run across a C.R.A.P. argument yet.
Sooner or later, you may find yourself staring down an argument that makes you saw, "What the f^ck?!"
And, you might start questioning your own sanity...
So, I'm going to start by explaining the origin of C.R.A.P.
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