Betoota Advocate too. Tell you what, how ever this effects the news organisations, this IS going to kill the satire/comedy news market, unless everyone just abandons Facebook
Youtube links to ABC still working
Links to tweets from media org accounts, okay
NYT link posted using an Indonesian VPN
Anti-vax content from a reasonably well-known disinfo source, straight through 🤦♀️
These links seem to still be working, for now. I've no idea what kind of CDN this is for ABC, anyone know?
The Duran, a site regularly pinged for pro-Russian disinformation
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For me, the striking thing about so many of these images of rioters in the Capitol is that what they're doing - all of them - is creating content for social media.
At least in their minds, the true seat of power is not actually in that building. It's online.
Politics is always performative, but the nature of the performance has changed dramatically in just a few years. What we saw today was the sudden, violent disruption of one performance, the certification of electoral college votes, for another, wilder show.
They could have done anything in that building today. What they did, by and large, was take selfies and create social media content. That was what really mattered to them. Whatever higher motives they might claim, their actions suggest that was the real motive for many of them.
There are now a number of Twitter accounts posing as 'Typhoon Investigations'. I was able to eliminate most of these as imposters or unlikely to be connected to the original source. One, however, stood out.
It does seem plausible that TyphoonInvesti1 AKA 'Martin Aspen' could be connected to the original source of the report (which you may recall gave its author as 'M A'). This account pre-dates the earliest known published version of the report on Sep 3.
I have been looking into the timeline of the "Typhoon Investigations" report which makes a number of allegations about links between the Bidens and the Chinese Communist Party. I've found a few interesting things.
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The earliest version of the report which I have found so far appears to have been posted on Sept 3 on a blog called 'Intelligence Quarterly.' The document shared is dated Aug 31st. PDF properties show that the file was authored by a user 'M A' on Sep 1st. archive.is/FTs2A
Intelligence Quarterly is a blog 'dedicated to collecting important daily news on various topics into a clean, easy format.' It appears to have been running since 2010. It is currently using privacy protections, but was previously registered in 2016 to an Albert Marko (so, A M)
It's important to caveat that this is not meant to be comprehensive; includes primarily English-language activity; that we have not attempted to verify content; and that we are not seeking to undermine legitimate social media debate. Nonetheless, we made some interesting findings
This included significant spikes in account creation on key days in the conflict, for example Sept 27 and, as well as spikes dating back to earlier clashes in July.