Today's right-wing claim about "illegal social media monitoring" of Hannity, Trump Jr, etc. is the debunked claim from last year about CrowdTangle recycled.
John Solomon even writes like CrowdTangle is some sort of shady vendor instead of just a search tool owned by Facebook.
John Solomon even writes like CrowdTangle is some sort of shady vendor instead of just a search tool owned by Facebook.
Here's Will Sommer in October 2019; it's the exact same bullshit, just with the imprimatur of the State Department instead of a dumb accusation by Tom Fitton thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-medi…
tldr: Giuliani, with help of Solomon, Hannity, etc was running a shadow foreign policy in Ukraine in right-wing media. The ambassador there wanted just to track what they said about Ukraine. That's it.
This was a dumb scandal in October 2019 and it's even dumber today.
This was a dumb scandal in October 2019 and it's even dumber today.
the real scandal is why hannity knew about state department releases ahead of time but alas
Been trying to think of analogues, and the closest I can think of is saying Twitter Advanced Search is illegal surveillance by shadowy figures.
It's just a preposterous scandal, meant to portray these people as victims. There's nothing else to it, it's all smoke and mirrors.
It's just a preposterous scandal, meant to portray these people as victims. There's nothing else to it, it's all smoke and mirrors.
