It would appear the Russians have hacked and are dumping Hillary Clinton's emails again .... oh wait ... I am getting something in my earpiece ... "its not the Russians this time?"
Remember this oldie but goodie? 🤣😂 Jared and Ivanka’s secret email addresses are hosted on a private server managed by the Trump Org and hundreds of White House emails have ended up there #infosecmedium.com/@ariehkovler/j…
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The full report by the Stanford Internet Observatory on the take down of the Rally Forge / Turning Point USA domestic troll farm operation is very illuminating and clearly domestic actors are now copying Russian IRA style tactics #infoOps#disinfo#osint
One jaw-dropping section was the discovery that a fake political persona was created & running in Arizona’s Fifth Congressional District. The operation wasn't fully formed and didn't realize much traction. Stanford suggested a number of possible motives. #infoOps#disinfo#osint
Given the political connections Rally Forge has, this was not done as some kind of Borat style joke. It was likely a dry-run test. Keep in mind political candidates, no matter how small have a possible path to blue checkmarked verification status on Twitter for example.
Remember some of these headlines back in May? This is a fascinating BREAKING article in the Wall Street Journal about a service called Mixi(.)media. There a number of companies that do this where its not clear who the primary news source is #osint
We came across Mixi(.)media back in May when we were looking at #covid19 disinformation and looked at some of the odd Twitter accounts that were pushing the mixi(.)media stuff. #osint
This service like a number of others like it actually obscure who the true source behind the news banner is. Here are a few banner ad titles the Mixi(.)media redirect link and the final landing source. #osint
It would appear that #LatinosForTrump is as much astroturf as it is wishful thinking. Maybe less "astroturf" than the very fake "#AmishForTrump" that got skewered on Twitter. Russian media defended the lady with designer sunglasses, an iPhone & Gucci handbag as being Amish
And no doubt Russia will come to the aid of the #LatinosForTrump campaign as well. We looked at this recent tweet by the Trump campaign sanctioned account @\EquipoTrump promoting the hashtag #LatinosForTrump with a campaign video. We reviewed the first 210 most immediate retweets
Not surprisingly there were alot of relatively new accounts and a seeming paucity of authentic Hispanic accounts.
Fascinating, we have started our analysis of our #Hamilton68 archive of Kremlin aligned trolls and their Twitter conversations around trying to de-legitimize the 2020 elections. Alot of retweeting of President Trump, actually & boosting content like this. #infoOps#osint#disinfo
The article was originally put out by the Kremlin aligned blogging site fort-russ(.)com on July 30th and the account preceded to push out the article again & again using a link shortener until it gave up on August 1st. Notice the other hashtags included. #infoOps#osint#disinfo
Chris has already done a good thread & analysis on the Twitter reactions after the indictment in #Louisville was handed down yesterday. We have a couple of things to add namely some additional analysis on the phrase "burn Louisville" #BLM#BreonnaTaylor
First alot of the analysis @TAPSTRIMEDIA did shows a high level of astroturfing activity around the hashtags he looked at. Levels of 25% & higher & much of the initial activity stemmed from videos related to this Uhaul dropping off what appears 2b #Antifa related protest signs
Here is the hoaxy analysis for the phrase "burn Louisville" that was also briefly trending on Twitter yesterday late afternoon. The cyborg / astroturfing activity was just over 31%. Normal more organic levels tend to be close to roughly 4% or less. #Louisville#BreonnaTaylor
This is just criminal. We are 6 months into this pandemic & catastrophic response by President Trump & his allies like trade advisor Peter Navarro is still pushing the failed treatment of hydroxychloroquine now using a pseudo-think tank as justification
His supporters still think Hospitals are padding the COVID-19 #'s to make bank & meanwhile back on planet earth, hospitals are getting crushed financially because of the strain COVID-19 patients are putting on the system. Stupidity has become the real Doomsday Device #coronavirus
Rural hospitals, that many Trump supporters depend on are going bankrupt or nearing the financial cliff. ALL of this could have been prevented with even a little competent leadership back in January when Trump says ON TAPE he knew the pandemic would be bad npr.org/sections/healt…