"those tweets spread in an odd pattern: More than half the 3,000 accounts retweeting Trump did so in near-perfect synchronicity, so that the 945th tweet was the same number of seconds apart as the 946th" washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
"just 20 conservative, pro-Trump Twitter accounts — including the president’s own @realDonaldTrump — were the original source of one-fifth of retweets pushing misleading narratives about voting" eipartnership.net/rapid-response…
"President Trump has repeatedly cited his concerns over voter fraud associated with mail-in ballots as a reason that he may not abide by an adverse electoral outcome." cyber.harvard.edu/publication/20…
"some of the most common spreaders of misinformation were right-wing news sites like Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit. YouTube also served as a major source of misinformation about these topics, according to Zignal" .nytimes.com/2020/10/27/tec…
A core group of more than 500 followers — with 832,000 followers retweet Trump in the same identical pattern
-Trump had 20M Twitter followers before the election
-56% of 3,000 retweets were shared in the same pattern over a period of 24 hours. #TrumpScam
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@JasonLeopold over at @BuzzFeed needs some kind of award. Mueller had plenty to nail every one of these greasy @TrumpFuckerists then he was shut down by Barr. Now you know why.
The Libya Project fell apart in June 2019. Secret payments were alleged to have been made from Kushner in 2018 using $145M UAE funds. Docs show: July 18; $28.5M to Erik Prince, July 19; $85M to Haftar. In Aug another $11m to Erik Prince final in Dec: $21M.
After Prince's minions failed, Wagner mercenaries, aka the Russians, poured into Libya in Sept, then Mozambique. Prince sued the Intercept to try to silence this story of a meeting in the UAE with Wagner's head of intel. Who was meeting whom about what? theintercept.com/2020/04/13/eri…
The oddest thing about James Bond was the American surf guitar riff against the jazz showtune background. Vic Flick did the honors.
"Then the Bond producers heard the soundtrack to the 1960 teenage "angst" movie Beat Girl, and it was just sound they were looking for. The Beat Girl theme was written by composer John Barry and features Flick on guitar. "
and I can't wait for Bannon and Prince to join Rudy. It appears they have all been doing bad things for foreign paymasters. #DrainThatSwamp. #LockThemUp
NBC shows how the sausage is made. The pitch, the vetting and what red lines prevented them from being played. We need this on ALL media stories since they lives off "story pitches" and PR. And rarely is the genesis and provenance included. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
After the election the inaction and incompetence of Trump in dealing with a pandemic will result in a new legacy as the largest mass murderer in American history. Extreme? Unfair? Yes. But a lot of pent up anger out there. #NegligentCovidcide
When this is over in two or three years, America may want to build a monument to all that we lost to the pandemic. As of today we have the highest new infection rate in history. That statistic I pin directly on Desperate Donald Trump and his band of science-hating idiots.
Pandemics are predictable, controllable and curable with time and management. We even have a pandemic expert, reporting system and scientists racing to get vaccines and medications to market. We can even learn from successful plans in other nations. ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-da…
Sean captured Bond perfectly. The original books had a very ambiguously gay, odd pain loving, homo erotic cold shower thing going on. He played it low key. Probably best caught in this later version by Daniel Craig.