🧵Blocklists

A tool in the information warfare toolkit with the intent of siloing/dividing subscribers into limited info bubbles ripe for disinfo amplification & further division.

📌A Timeline

cc: @CanadianWizardT Image
On 3/22/17 & 4/8,9/17 LM encouraged her followers to subscribe to Jester’s blocklist to block “Putinbots.”

Putinbots sounds scary, don’t they? Twitter newbies want to be safe from “Russian trolls” so they naively subscribe, IPs likely scraped. Image
LM loved pro Brexit “putinbots,” funny that. Image
LM loved pro Brexit “putinbots” funny that. Image
6/12/17

@chiefcovfefe @tonyserrata offers his followers a link to his blocklist.

“TrumpTrolls and other a$$holes blocked.” Image
6/23/17

Is @counterchekist referring to @LouiseMench, his associate, and sending her followers a warning?

🤷‍♀️ Image
7/9/17 SpicyFiles/Filey offers her own blocklist: Image
7/11/17

Analysis re Chief’s blocklist.

Remember in retaliation LM accused this account of anti semitism & posted purported photoshopped images as she did to Woky to smear his credibility.

Conclusion: if you are looking to block “TrumpTrolls” this blocklist won’t help” ImageImageImageImage
Note I later learned in late November ‘17 Chief’s blocklist was not well curated as it was advertised to me, but rather it was a dump of Robin’s (🐕🙉) & Cassandra Fairbanks’ followers.

In other words 50% left wing/50% Right wingers were blocked.

Let’s piss off both sides. 🍿
Preet Bharara was included in Chief & LM’s blocklist, funny that.

@PreetBharara like Andrew McCabe have been widely scorned by LM.

“TrumpTrolls” nor “Putinbots” were effectively blocked by the blocklist. Image
10/10/17

“What date is in the attached and whose blocklist was Rob McNeese @akula_51 on?”

 10/20/17

LM advertises her blocklist to her followers, but allegedly does not subscribe herself. Image
10/20/17 Image
Op TT Twitter & RussiaReveledRevealed website
first posted 10/21/17 ImageImage
10/23/17

Chief alerts us (naive/stupid followers of LM) to the RussiaRussiaRevealed site.

Recently I asked LM why we were not warned or notified, & she said it was @counterchekist decision to withhold the heads up. 🤷‍♀️

WTF? It was very stressful, to say the least. Image
10/27/17

Op Titty Twister posted on Gab by Microchip Image
This happened 10/28/17

Bitburner charts.

I hope @CanadianWizardT may enlighten us as to what amplification the charts represents. ImageImageImage
11/22/17

LM amplifying their blocklist. Image
11/22/17

Cassandra Fairbanks in her lefty sock talking about the blocklist. Image
11/27/17

📌Blocklist attack date.

What was happening behind the scenes between Louise and her “old boots” troll associates? ImageImage
11/22/17

LM bantering with her old boots troll associates.

Blocklist botnet released to attack her followers.

What did Louise do to them to warrant this attack? Hmmmm?

LM deleted all these tweets.

The attack was traumatic. LM didn’t defend us & chided us for responding. ImageImageImage
11/24/17
#BlockedbyChiefCovfefe begins Image
11/27/17

Jester hypes CounterSocial as an alternative to Being blocked by Chief Image
Interesting timing of the opening of CounterSocial...was making Twitter hostile part of the agenda?

11/19/17

Jester announces CounterSocial as a new social media platform opens. Image
1/28/21

Interesting comment: who is really orchestrating “TeamPatriot”? #fakeOppo

TeamPatriot = TeamFlyingMonkeys/TeamTrolls.

Wake up my friends. ImageImage
Russia’s intent is to divide Americans, guess who helps? Image
3/28/17

The blocklist was used as an information warfare tool to divide Americans & silo them into controlled info bubbles that can and are manipulated to silence truth/critics, muddy water, seed disinfo and amplify distractions.

Spin: Image

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