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Extensive analysis of Bolivian social media manipulation from November was published in Spanish by experts from several countries but it didn't seem to break through to US media. Why not?

Some highlights 👉 medium.com/@erin_gallaghe… #dataviz of 92K new accounts created in Nov 2019
This guy liked *and* retweeted his own tweet calling me a “communist/socialist researcher” 😄

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Sounds like the same guy just left this comment on my medium blog 🙄
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Erin Gallagher
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One of the worst trolls on this website & a major source of disinfo is a US Senator 🤫
Exhibit A: November 2019 Senator Rubio tweeted an old video and said it was from a current protest. The old video is still on his timeline, he never deleted or corrected it.
Exhibit B:
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Erin Gallagher
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A 2016 @TBIJ investigation ID'ed $540 million in transactions between the Pentagon & British PR firm, Bell Pottinger for information operations & psyops from May 2007 to Dec 2011. A similar contract for appx same annual rate, $120M, was in force in 2006, labs.thebureauinvestigates.com/fake-news-and-…
July 2017: "It takes a certain level of cynicism to race bait South Africans to protect profits. It’s downright underhanded to hire a public relations firm to do it professionally." qz.com/africa/1023901…
The general public needs to understand how the PR industry works and its role in creating & disseminating #disinformation but the PR industry depends on the general public not understanding how they're being targeted with sophisticated messaging and PR campaigns. #disinfo2020
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Erin Gallagher
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On April 3, 1998, American Petroleum Institute launched a multimillion dollar, multi-year PR campaign to install “uncertainty” in the public policy arena. “Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science…”

Docs: climatefiles.com/trade-group/am…
People are not "resistant to facts" about climate change because they're stupid. People think climate change is a hoax because there's been a decades-long PR campaign to warp public opinion about climate change. scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-…
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9.🗣️📢Alert World leaders, citizens of the world, is attempting a coup d'état in #Bolivia.
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7.🗣️📢Alert World leaders, citizens of the world, is attempting a coup d'état in #Bolivia.
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