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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 4 min read
A bogus claim from @amuse that Biden's transition team asked the National Guard not to station troops near Biden who have voted in GOP primaries/contributed to GOP candidates went viral recently, being retweeted thousands of times and copied by several accounts.

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This is not @amuse's first disinfo rodeo. Previous hits include falsely claiming that the QAnon shaman is antifa (he's been identified as Trump supporter Jacob Chansley and arrested) and stating that both Biden and Trump got more than 270 electoral votes (this didn't happen).
One last thing: @amuse regularly deletes older tweets, hiding from the casual observer the account's track record of peddling disinformation. Plenty of @amuse's tweets have been archived, however, which is how we found most of the ones featured in this thread.
(Archive links to @amuse's disinformation tweets included in collages in this thread)

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