FFS 🤦🏼♀️ the tiny blue manipulated media tag at the bottom of the tweet is completely inadequate, I reported the tweet - but @TwitterSupport policy needs to be proactive and remove that tweet, any tweet with that video, and any future blatant fake automatically
If they won’t delete - at a minimum the banner should be at the top of the tweet in red and should say ‘click to see the original and real video’
Actually, maybe it's better not to delete and instead a red banner at the top should say:
"This person has shared a fake video. Click here to see the real one."
Show exactly what Trump, and anyone who shares a fake video, is doing
Everyone is completely unprepared to counter the sleazy tactics Trump and his team use
Not to mention illegal tactics that are carefully outsourced or encouraged, with a nod and wink, or by a request at a campaign rally... Russia if you're listening
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point website says it has 350 part and full-time staff, 800+ chapters on 3,500 US campuses where they run events, recruit activists and register voters
Kirk meanwhile hosts shows espousing conspiracy theories and far-right views
Michael Shvartsman who pleaded guilty today to insider trading related to DWAC-Trump Media merger is friends w/Anton Postolnikov who used ES Family Trust to loan $8mil to Trump Media in 2022 per @hugolowell
There's another link from Shvartsman to ES Family Trust, see 🧵below
As @hugolowell reported the ES Family Trust
creation papers included a declaration that, if the original trustee – a Paxum employee named Angel Pacheco – stepped down from the role, his successor would be a certain individual named Michael Shvartsman
@hugolowell After story about $8 million in loans made to Trump Media came through Paxum Bank and ES Family Trust, where Angel Pacheco was a trustee - researcher @braisincapital found Pacheco and Shvartsman were listed as managers of Foundation Card Services in 2019
ES Family Trust was established in May 2021 and Postolnikov’s access to account was verified in Nov 2021 by a Paxum Bank manager. The trust was funded in December 2021 and Trump Media received loans from ES Family Trust: $2m Dec 2021 and $6m Feb 2022.
"The loans came in the form of convertible promissory notes, meaning ES Family Trust would gain a major stake in Trump Media because it was offering the money in exchange for Trump Media agreeing to convert the loan principal into shares of Company Stock”
I've been following Trump $ for years - OGE filings, real estate deals, loans, NYAG fraud case, DWAC and Trump Media & Technology Group merger, etc
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Quick 🧵 of my recent pieces
Trump has over half a billion dollars in legal penalties – a review of nine+ years of Trump’s cash spreadsheets reveals new information and raises new questions
Update on recent investments made by Jared Kushner’s multi-billion-dollar Saudi-backed Affinity Partners and how the firm links to the Abraham Accords Peace Institute nonprofit Kushner created
"But it is hard to predict how shares of Trump Media will trade, given that it is losing tens of millions of dollars and generated just $3.3 million in advertising revenue over the first nine months of last year."