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Turns out, Fusion GPS-linked group worked with tech company tied to Russian ‘false flag’ operation in Alabama bizpacreview.com/2019/01/11/tur…

A nonprofit group linked to Fusion GPS and partially funded by George Soros worked in recent months with a technology company implicated in a scheme to use fake Russian bots during Alabama’s special Senate election.

The groups, the Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP) and @NewKnowledgeAI, partnered before the 2018 midterms to track alleged Russian disinformation networks, a website the organizations collaboratively run shows.

Both organizations have links to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), which is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, as well as allegedTrump campaign collusion.

TDIP is also linked to the Senate Intelligence panel. Its founder, Daniel J. Jones, was previously a staffer for Democrats on SSCI. He was also in contact in early 2017 with Virginia @MarkWarnerVA ,the Democratic vice chairman of SSCI.

As part of TDIP’s own Trump-Russia investigation, the group hired Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier.

The extent of Warner’s contacts with Jones remain unclear.

The collaboration between TDIP & New Knowledge, which has not been previously reported, involved a dashboard set up at the site, Disinfo2018.com, which tracked “social media disinformation networks conducting info warfare against the American public prior to" the midterms

.@NewKnowledgeAI has come under heavy criticism because the firm’s tactics in Alabama so closely mirrored the Russian efforts they say they oppose. Morgan, a former State Dept adviser, said the AL project was merely an experiment that had no impact on the special election.

Jones, who registered TDIP on Jan. 31, 2017, told the FBI in late March 2017 his organization had hired Fusion GPS and Steele, a former MI6 officer, to continue investigations into Russian meddling in the U.S. elections that began with funding from the DNC and Clinton campaign.

Jones also told the FBI the project had received $50M in funding from between seven and 10 wealthy liberal donors.

Around the same time as his meeting with the FBI, Jones reached out to Adam Waldman, an attorney with a myriad of links to players in the Russia saga.

Waldman represented Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and has apparent links to Steele.

Waldman said Jones told him that Fusion GPS was involved with TDIP. He also said Jones claimed Soros had provided funding for TDIP’s anti-Trump operation.

Waldman also provided text messages from March 17, 2017, in which Jones said TDIP helped plant anti-Trump news stories.

“Our team helped with this,” Jones wrote to Waldman, linking to a Reuters article about Russian investment in Florida properties owned by Donald Trump.