Thread by @carolecadwalla

.@amnesty needs *urgent* help. It has completely failed to understand that it has been targeted by a coordinated disinformation campaign. It’s an absolutely textbook example

And the fact that it worked is as shocking as it tragic

bbc.com/news/world-eur…

‘We were hit with complaints from so-called concerned citizens...in an apparently co-ordinated move’

EXACTLY. @amnesty this is *your own spokesman*. Literally describing a *coordinated* campaign

This is a terrible wake-up call. If @amnesty doesn’t understand how disinformation works & is powerless to resist it, what hope is there? Navalny is *literally a victim of state-sponsored disinfo*. It’s one of the weapons the Russian state uses against him

The fact is that @amnesty is also a victim here. By failing to understand disinformation & instead falling for it, it’s just inflicted huge damage on itself. If you run an NGO or any organisation, there are lessons here. You fail to understand this stuff at your peril

cc @julieverhaar @khosla_rajat