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7 Nov, 8 tweets, 5 min read
[Thread] 1/ This morning's copypasta pro-Trump astroturfing suggests there is going to be a lot of divorces because of Joe Biden #Elections2020 #disinformation
2/ A lot of the accounts are sports fans of some description, like this, erm, 77 year-old pro FC Bayern fan who loves Trump, but also wants to see him lose (can't even tell if it's sarcasm) #Election2020results
3/ A little juicier. This copypasta crew are explicitly repeating the claim that the election was rigged, which again is false and misleading #Election2020results
4/ More of the same network of accounts repeating the claim that the elections have been rigged. These ones feature starving kids. Also, I am enjoying the phrase 'I'm disappointment'. Yes, you are indeed... #Election2020results #copypasta
5/ It has been written that this is the permutation of a sports meme Baltimore Orioles meme about leaving the country. I am not generally convinced that is always the case, also, for the most part, they're still spreading harmful information, that if, theverge.com/2020/11/5/2154…
6/ taken out of context (which is very easy to do) could be construed as promoting falsehoods. Maybe time for a new subset of misinformation meme-information. 😅 #Election2020results
7/ Also sports Twitter is notably dodgy, in the same league as porn bots (pun intended) vox.com/technology/201…
8/ Most of the copypasta tweets claiming that the elections have been rigged are directed at @realDonaldTrump , @JoeBiden , and the @spectatorindex #Election2020results

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2 Nov
[thread] 1/ Strange digital #deception going on about UK hospitals trying to create idea covid19 isn't serious or stressing the NHS. It all started when @Intuitive1966 asked a question about whether hospitals were full. In steps @madogs93 - who claims to be a 'ward sister'
2/ in a '1600 bedder'. For those of us who have never heard this expression before (and that's all of us), this refers to the number of beds in the hospital. The tweet, designed to irresponsibly downplay severity of the pandemic, got 1600 retweets (one RT per bed). As many of you
3/ have noted, there was also much copypasta, with lots of people copy and pasting the tweet content. Many tweeps have raised concerns about whether madogs93 is lying, largely provoked by the odd turn of phrase '1600 bedder'. Let's look at some other inconsistencies though...
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25 Oct
I am kind of fascinated by boycotts, or rather, why people choose to boycott at specific times and not others, especially living in a country that has been boycotted. Recently I've been thinking about Yemen, thousands of Yemenis killed by US and British made weapons,
yet no boycott of US or UK. No substantial boycott of China despite internment of millions of Uighur Muslims. Remember that boycott of GAP, but not particularly other brands equally culpable in sweatshop labour? Trump's de facto boycott of Muslim countries, done as a policy
instrument, yet no boycott of US goods. Every boycott, or potential boycott is different, but the egregiousness of the original act certainly does not seem to be the soul component in allowing something to cross the boycott threshold. I think what's theoretically interesting,
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17 Oct
[Thread] 1/ Thought it would be useful to examine e-bile/digital misogyny on Twitter, so I looked at how many people had called Congresswoman @IlhanMN four common gendered pejoratives "sl*t, b*tch, c*nt, and wh*re" between now and November 2018. The results are shocking.
2/ The scraping of tweets resulted in around 3,089 individual tweets containing insults. Bitch was the most common slur, representing around 82% of the tweets, followed by wh*re (7%), c*nt (6%) and sl*t (4%).
3/ the time series graph below shows that every month there is a variation in the amount of abuse. Presumably this volatility reflects certain political events. It is interesting to note that the distribution of insults changes temporarily in August, Sept and October 2019..
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12 Oct
[Thread] 1 Here are some of the biggest verified tweeters on the "Hillary Emails" trend yesterday, where some entity thought they'd create a buzz around five year old legitimate data dump immediately following Pompeo's announcement that all Hillary emails would be leaked. Some of
2/ the usual superspreaders are here, namely @alshaikh2 and @monther72 @halgawi etc. (previous graph is by the people who generally tweeted a lot on the hashtag). Below nodes sized by most retweeted. @Forsan_UAE making a strong show. Definitely a joint Emirate/Saudi effort here
3/ This is just a brief visualisation for my own notes. Starting to wonder if there should be a new category for fake news - "old news repurposed and reimagined as a new scoop with frequent misrepresentation of facts" #disinformation
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6 Oct
The results of the Ipsos MORI survey cited in the Fox News piece (irrelevantly) was commissioned by Cornerstone Global Associates - although this was not mentioned in the Fox News piece (thanks @anthonyjwells ) for pointing this out. As Anthony also points out, it probably
looks more credible to not highlight the fact that the poll itself was commissioned by the think tank whose report was the basis for the article itself, and whose director invoked England as being a good place to host the world cup. Instead, the Fox News piece links to a Sun
Newspaper report on the poll. The Sun article does not mention the poll was commissioned by Cornerstone Global - a good example of 'laundering' a source. One could excuse this as normal practise, but given that the article seems to be written in bad faith, and that the citation
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5 Oct
[Thread] This article should is an exemplar of bad journalism:
1) JOURNALIST BACKGROUND - the writer Ben Weinthal works for a think tank that has hosted an anti-Qatar conference and whose senior members are chummy with the UAE Ambassador in the US.

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The same journalist routinely harasses academics and journalists on Twitter who live in Qatar
2) SOURCING - It cites a report by the firm Cornerstone Global's whose director, Ghanem Nuseibeh is related to the UAE's Ambassador to the UN, and who previously offered to do PR for
Qatar. A previous Cornerstone report initially cited uncritically by the BBC was softened after Cornerstone's credibility on the Gulf Crisis and World Cup was called into question
3 ) VERIFICATION. No attempts are made to verify the claims of the report,it's accepted uncritically
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