When I say shit like “Don’t trust the numbers from DHS” it’s because this sort of shit is going on. But no one wants to admit it because then they get accused of “bias” so those who speak out get to just twist in the wind
It’s been a really frustrating few years.
Like so. They used fake numbers to signal to white supremacists whose side they were on. Remember that?
To be clear, I’m not faulting NBC for this. They have great border and disinfo coverage and I’m glad this story is out there. I’m just trying to explain the mechanism — and why I went rogue early on.
I wrote this in November 2018 and got a lot of snarky “bias” pushback at the time lol. But disinfo is still disinfo no matter what entity is pushing it truthorfiction.com/did-obama-admi…
And because I just can’t resist repeating this: Fuck everybody who ever doubted me. I was right and you were wrong and you should have listened to me. 🖕🏻

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12 Sep
The fucked up thing about this is that I see the number "8800" and don't know if it's genuine or just more "88" signaling.

nbcnews.com/politics/immig… via @NBCNews
The most* fucked up thing, considering we are talking about deporting children. Do you know what happens when you get deported? If you are a Mexican national, no matter where you're from in Mexico, generally they take you to Tijuana and just leave you there. No wallet? Too bad.
You're supposed to find their families in their home countries, of course, but do you think this administration gives a shit? So the United States is just dumping little kids off in the street in Tijuana. The words "deport" and "expelled" hide incredible cruelties.
Read 8 tweets
11 Sep
This is the shit my team and I were trying to hold back or at least mitigate in time for the 2020 elections. We've been fighting this since 2017 at least. It's motivated a lot of my decisions since Myanmar made me realized the awful possibilities inherent in weaponized disinfo
I cannot emphasize enough that my speaking out about disinformation, Facebook algorithms, personality data, DHS, border surveillance and cruelty, my own driver's license and passport flags, and climate change are all part of the same story: a massive, audacious power grab.
Many people named in this story have links to the Tanton network, the "passive eugenics" and "population control" maniacs I've spoken about at length.

buzzfeednews.com/article/rosieg…
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11 Sep
Local "civil defense" groups all over the country are claiming this stupid bullshit as a pretext for hunting "antifa." It is coordinated messaging in the service of coordinated white supremacist chaos -- brought to you by @Facebook

buzzfeednews.com/christopherm51…
This is that wingnut eugenicist lawyer Scott McMillan (links to follow.) Note the "iFunny" logo that he doesn't have the brains to even hide. How someone this willing to believe literally anything made it through law school is a mystery
That would be this guy:

washingtonpost.com/politics/coron…
Read 6 tweets
10 Sep
White supremacist militias, high on their own #disinformation supply, are pulling stunts like this in Oregon.

What would you call this if you were watching it play out in another country?
A bunch of violent shitlords have been getting "nudged" by Facebook closer and closer to violence as its algorithms push like-minded white supremacists together. Now there's groups with thousands of people where they all push disinfo and share memes of driving into protesters.
You know where else this shit happened? Crimea in 2014, preceded by and alongside a massive disinformation campaign jhuapl.edu/Content/docume…
Read 10 tweets
7 Sep
We’re already well into the climate crisis, right down to the would-be tinpot dictators forming alliances and hardening their borders — while Facebook runs interference for them and allows their little footsoldiers on the ground to find one another and organize via algorithm
Not to mention @Facebook’s board member Peter Thiel, who has been giving border agencies surveillance tech just as fast as he and his creepy little buddies can develop it to watch us all 24/7
And the caravans of families arriving at the southern U.S. border to ask for refuge. What, didn’t you realize they’re climate refugees? Why not, I wonder? Surely it wasn’t all that disinformation and racist rhetoric around them?
Read 21 tweets
4 Sep
I disagree strongly with this descriptor. It is not a delusion. It is a classic example of a weaponized, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of the types circulated by Stalin and Hitler to offer themselves and others permission to act on hideous impulses

buzzfeednews.com/article/drumoo…
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