Thread by @ErrataRob

We are past the point of Trump's team making "unsubstantiated" claims of voter fraud. We are now at the point of Trump's team substantiating their claims with lies.

They used this guy's tool and totally lied about what it's results meant.

https://twitter.com/binarypool/status/1333892221452619786

Rudy Giuliani had an 11 hour meeting with Arizona lawmakers were he repeated already debunked claims, as well as outright lies.

Giuliani isn't some random person from the Internet, but the person in charge of all the Republican efforts to demonstrate voter fraud.

There's still no evidence of fraud by Democrats, but this here is evidence of fraud by Republicans.

It's a lie when Giuliani says: "that chart [SpiderFoot graph] that I can't understand with all those arrows -- that's the traffic that was going on from your voting and calculating machines to the rest of the world".

Moments later he says, based on the lie, that the Arizona legislature needs to overturn the election. It's provably a fraudulent attempt to change the election.

This is a good question, but it's a frustrating answer, since it's a complete lie. It's like them pulling up a rock saying "this is proof of election fraud" and being forced to explain geology to debunk them. The lie is that big.

But I'll try...

https://twitter.com/W_Nelson/status/1333906994353225729

SpiderFoot is like a credit report, but for things like Internet addresses. It searches public records across the Internet for information associated with a domain name, IP addresses, and other things.

It's not "volumetric traffic" or even "communication between two poitns".

For example, I did a report for DominionVoting.com. The tool finds IP addresses associated with that domain, then finds information associated with those IP addresses. I clicked on "IP Address" to highlight correlations.

By following these links, we can drill down to things like "Malicious IP address". This means at one point, this IP address used by DomainVoting.com was also used for malware/viruses. BUT THIS DOESN'T MEAN WHAT YOU THINK.

Because most websites using "hosting" services, almost any IP address they use now was also used by malware at some point in the past. The report aggressively grabs data, but requires skill to sift the true bits out of it.

It doesn't show anything like what was claimed or implied.
- it doesn't show DominionVoting.com was online
- it doesn't show any voting machines connected to the Internet
- it's not volumetric data
- it's doesn't really show vulnerabilities or infections

This picture is not a "report" but a "navigation tool" that helps you explore all the information that SpiderFoot reports. It's not "SpiderFoot" itself who is the authority for any info in the report, but the sources where SpiderFoot retrieved the information.

You would never say "According to SpiderFoot...". When using SpiderFoot to find information, you'd credit the original sources, as in this case, you'd say "According to Maltiverse".

By the way, I haven't even addressed the fact that he was showing something related to dominionvoting.com being online, leading the panel to believe Dominion voting machines were online. These things were deliberately confused, and not corrected when the panel made mistakes.