Thread by @adamjohnsonNYC

shockingly irresponsible for NBC to use New Knowledge as an expert on Russian social media bots without noting New Knowledge was caught running fake "Russian bots" in the 2017 Alabama Senate race. (v @MarkAmesExiled)

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…

dailydot.com/layer8/alabama…

this shadowy, partisan group funded by a billionaire that was just caught making fake Russian bots that created dozens of false positive stories about Russians backing a candidate in 2017 they, it turns out, werent actually backing is here to say who said bots are backing in 2019

one would think being caught running fake fake accounts that generated dozens of false news stories would undermine a groups credibility in determining what accounts were & weren't fake but the editorial standards of Russiagate social media stories is basically nonexistent

New Knowledge's funder, Reid Hoffman, was previously caught running fake, "rightwing" (& v sexist) ads on FB praising Tulsi under a group called "Right Call". Media never picked up on it being Russian but its another example of false positives from Hoffman thedailybeast.com/the-mystery-fi…

Hoffman and New Knowledge are open dirty tricksters and there's ample evidence they run fake fake accounts to inflate or manufacture what "Russian" bots support and don't support. There's no effort on the part of NBC and others to actually verify any of this. Totally mindless.

Apologies here's a non-paywalled link showing Hoffman funded the bizarre Gabbard ads elink.thedailybeast.com/view/5b34286f9…