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17 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Perhaps they should ask themselves some hard questions about the management of the Hoover Institution and why so many people spouting the stuff they have to denounce came to be employed there
Not just Atlas. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-g…
If you're not good at public communications, perhaps one of the most important public policy jobs in the country, on which thousands of lives depend, is not for you

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19 Oct
New: Iranian disinformation trolls have been amplifying fake stories planted by hackers in breached twitter accounts and at least one website, according to reporting by The Daily Beast and Mandiant Threat Intelligence. thedailybeast.com/hackers-plante…
Early this month, something strange happened. Hackers broke into Israel Hayom’s Twitter account and tweeted fake stories about Trump dying of COVID, BLM firing shots outside the Clinton’s house and a Hezbollah submarine israelhayom.com/2020/10/05/isr…
We dug into the accounts amplifying those stories and found they had a long, strange trail of involvement in similar incidents. @LeeFosterIntel and his team at Mandiant had been tracking them, too.
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20 Jul
New from me: Racist Disinformation Campaign Impersonates Tammy Duckworth. Handful of accounts have been using a forged letter from Duckworth's office to falsely claim that "black separatists" were responsible for the Bonhomme Richard Navy ship fire.
thedailybeast.com/tammy-duckwort…
The accounts involved impersonated Yoni Chetboun, an Israeli special operations Lt Col who went on to serve in the Knesset, and a nonexistent reporter for France24. They've since been suspended from Twitter.
Dig through those two accounts' histories, you'll see they set up copycat websites to push their stories. The "Kelly Turner" account linked to a fake article about the Bonhomme fire lphinfo/.org, a website meant to resemble a real Israeli weekly hosted at lphinfo.com
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6 Jul
Twitter just suspended 16 Twitter accounts that were part of a network of fake personas. Together they spent the last year placing about 90 opeds in +40 different news outlets. Newsmax. Washington Examiner. Jerusalem Post. Real Clear Media. thedailybeast.com/right-wing-med…
Meet The Arab Eye/Persia Now network.
The network had about 17 different personas. Most on Twitter. Some not.
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18 May
There's an update to this story about the bogus defense contractor report that claims coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab. The Daily Beast obtained a second satellite image, this time from Airbus, showing one of the report's key claims is false. thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contr…
One of the central claims is that there was "absolutely no traffic" by the Wuhan Institute of Virology after the alleged leak from Oct 14-19. This claim is based on mobile device data and the authors claimed there were "roadblocks" put in place to prevent traffic coming near it.
@ArmsControlWonk already did a great job showing that nearby construction was likely the source of that "roadblock" theory and that there was normal traffic around. This Airbus Defence and Space image from Oct 15 shows plenty of traffic (see the callouts in red) running nearby.
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9 Apr
Bit of a thread. I started working on this data set a couple months ago. Early accounts I found dated back to 2016 but in February I stumbled onto some of the COVID-19 disinfo that Russian trolls, likely from the Secondary Infektion campaign, were pushing. thedailybeast.com/russian-trolls…
Secondary Infektion (SI) is a pretty specific campaign of disinformation that's suspected to be linked to the Russian government. I'm grateful to @benimmo of @Graphika_NYC for helping me on this as they're some of the smartest people around on this campaign.
Heres the SI-linked COVID-19 story. Someone *cough* created a fake hacktivist group called Anonymous Kazakhstan & pushed messages to Kazakh social media claiming that the group had hacked biologists at the Central Reference Lab in Kazakhstan & found it was the source of the virus
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21 Jan
New from me: a profile of Brigadier General Ahmed Foruzandeh, Qods Force general who was in charge of running Iranian operations in Iraq for a time during the U.S. occupation. Based in part on declassified FOIA docs DIA took four years to cough up thedailybeast.com/meet-the-gener…
Foruzandeh was deputy commander and then commander of the Qods Force's Ramazan Corps, an IRGC unit tasked with irregular warfare operations in Iraq dating back to the Iran-Iraq war. Part of their purview: assassination of Iraqis viewed as impediments to Iranian influence in Iraq
Assassinating Iraqis working with the U.S.-led coalition was also part of Ramazan's work. Unit divided operations between bases along the Iran-Iraq border. Foruzandeh started his career in the Fajr command, which ran ops with Shia groups in southern Iraq. Here's one Fajr op.
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