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Just before Christmas we looked at #Hamilton68 accounts who focus on Russian geopolitics and how they were stoking the #giletsjaunes conflict in France. We noticed a new hashtag #integrityinitiative (red arrow) .. #infosec #osint #opsec 
We didn't think much about this over the holidays but revisited it in early January 2019. Turns out the the #integrityinitiative had become even more prominent and prompted additional research .. #infosec #osint #opsec
We did a hoaxy analysis of the #integrityinitiative hashtag on January 5th and noticed two major nodes of well-known #Hamilton68 accounts .. @Ian56789 and @ShoebridgeC ... #infosec #osint #opsec
A collection of the 9094 most recent tweets using #integrityinitiative on Jan 5th revealed some interesting "related" hashtag data much of which seemed relevant to Russian interests and many pro-Russian URLs. #infosec
This #integrityinitiative hashtag had already generated some memes and there seemed to be a growing effort by Russain trolls, alt-right and alt-left journalists to discredit an organization called the Integrity Initiative @InitIntegrity ... #infosec #osint #opsec
The Integrity Initiative (@InitIntegrity) is described as an international initiative to counter disinformation and malign influence. And promote media literacy and media freedom. It appears the British government is taking the lead on #integrityinitiative ...... #infosec #pysops
@3r1nG previously did a thread on the #integrityinitiative & her concerns are here: I don't share many of her concerns & welcome a coordinated response by multiple countries to try and combat Russian disinformation but its a well done alternate viewpoint
By the second week of January the #integrityinitiative had become the third most active hashtag among the Russian geopolitics focused #Hamilton68 accounts. Here is a wordcloud of 39k tweets by these accounts ... #infosec #osint #opsec
A colleague provided this network graph mapping the conversations and identifying the dominant voices around the #integrityinitiative hashtag. Map is based on 13k tweets pulled on 01/10/19 containing the hashtag #integrityinitiative .... #infosec #osint #opsec #psyops
@conspirator0 and @ZellaQuixote are all over the #integrityinitiative hashtag as well and their thread is a must read. .... #infosec #opsec #osint #psyops
