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23 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Twitter's introduction of warning labels to specifically apply to my factual reporting on covert UK info ops builds off of the policy it introduced in October to block links to a NY Post story on Hunter Biden's corruption, which was also based in fact mashable.com/article/twitte…
One of those exposed in leaks of UK FCO files was @gordonmacmillan, a captain in the UK's 77th Brigade psychological warfare division, which recruits hundreds of "Facebook warriors" to infiltrate social media.

Macmillan is Twitter's Middle East executive middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-e…
Macmillan's 77th Brigade was created under the auspices of the UK FCO's shadowy Counter-Disinformation & Media Development unit which has been exposed in a series of leaks that Twitter now labels as "hacked materials." medium.com/@KitKlarenberg…
Whether or not Macmillan has any role in the new "hacked materials" policy, he represents a direct link between Twitter and UK intel – and specifically to a semi-covert information warfare program whose activities I exposed in an article now branded with a scare label.

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Good to see the Senate #BlueAnon committee getting back to the business of propagandizing the American public about phony Russia meddling threats and padding the budget of the “intelligence community” that failed to detect any problems ahead of January 6.
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The author of multiple malicious, false and retracted screeds about me, @areidross, emailed me about his plan to smear me again in the Daily Beast.

I wrote DB editor, @NoahShachtman, about ARR's record of disgrace & his current Koch-funded work w/ police spies & right-wingers.
Here's @areidross's email pitch to @TheGrayzoneNews, which I edit. He wrote as "Lilac" from Earth First, which was shady. Months after I rejected his incoherent proposal, he began accusing me of controlling a secret commie-fascist alliance with Kremlin space lasers.
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This is a tactic the CIA tried unsuccessfully in Venezuela.

Incidentally, both Leonid Volkov and Navalny were fellows at Yale's Maurice "Hank" Greenberg program.

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“Stop defending the CCP!”

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