This is concerning when seemingly random Kremlin-aligned troll accounts like "Best Health 4 You" start to converge on a new propaganda narrative aligned with recent troop movements.
Well-know Putin apologists seem to be laying the groundwork that it was actually Ukraine that was the aggressor and Russia merely invaded Crimea to protect them from the crazed Ukrainians.
Oh Nathalie 48919727, who just found Twitter in November .... you have a very interesting reading list. As for George ... we all know George's story. He apparently is picking up where Ron Johnson and Giuliani left off.
Between a drone strike that supposedly killed a 5 yr old and stuff like this recycled footage ... its going to get increasingly difficult to figure out what is actually happening, what is real and what is information warfare coming from the Kremlin.
This sure calls into question the Russian claims on April 3rd that a 5 yr old was killed on purpose by a Ukrainian drone strike in Crimea. via @mhmck
We analyzed our archive of Kremlin-aligned #Hamilton68 twitter trolls, focusing on the subset that is most focused on Russian geopolitics, and created a wordcloud of 19755 tweets collected between April 1st - April 4th. #disinfo#infoOps
Not surprisingly much of the focus is on the conflict in Crimea & Russia's occupation of this part of Ukraine. There's been an alarming troop buildup here & increased Russian propaganda efforts. One such effort, the allegation a 5 yr old was killed by an Ukrainian drone
No such verifiable evidence yet exists for this claim but nevertheless this was pushed out by Kremlin-aligned trolls and state run Russian media to English, German, French and Italian audiences.
And of course state-run Iranian media ...
One of Tara Reade's early handlers of course was also in on the action.
Using Hoaxy analysis the @/DeanoBeano1 account was easily the top early spreader of this story.
Interesting .... I mean it is only a matter of time before the real story will eventually get out.
And here is how the Russian propaganda narrative is successfully and fully laundered creating the final feedback loop.
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I have seen plenty of sextorsion emails over the past couple of years .... but never a VOTEtorsion email. I guess this is one very unique use of a pilfered voter registration database. h/t @MajikaZulJin#Election2020
Here is an example of a typical sextorsion spam email. None of it is true of course & the same with the VOTEtorsion spam email above. They can not know who you vote for since all voting is anonymous so you can ignore these. #infosec#phishing#infoOps#osint
Actually please contact us if you receive any VOTEtorsion email threatening you to vote a certain way or change party affliation. And try to save the original email for us if possible. Here is more good information from @Donie at @CNN#election2020
This thread by @yashar & one by @file411 that I will link to next is a good head's up that there are still a number of fake #resistance accnts just waiting to flip into pro-Trump #MAGA accounts. Much like the astroturfed #Walkaway campaign of a few yrs ago
So apparently DNI Ratcliff has already forgotten what they said about Derkach
So now we have the FBI, which sources say is examing the "Hunter Biden laptop" as part of an investigation into Foreign interference with our election contradicting Trump loyalist and head of DNI, John Ratcliffe. #Election2020#infoOps#osint
So here's a great example of something that is suppose 2 prove something but actually doesnt. This email has been widely used as proof its Hunter Biden's laptop & that his Lawyer now wants it back. However, it proves only one thing. That Hunter possibly has a lawyer named George
The full report by the Stanford Internet Observatory on the take down of the Rally Forge / Turning Point USA domestic troll farm operation is very illuminating and clearly domestic actors are now copying Russian IRA style tactics #infoOps#disinfo#osint
One jaw-dropping section was the discovery that a fake political persona was created & running in Arizona’s Fifth Congressional District. The operation wasn't fully formed and didn't realize much traction. Stanford suggested a number of possible motives. #infoOps#disinfo#osint
Given the political connections Rally Forge has, this was not done as some kind of Borat style joke. It was likely a dry-run test. Keep in mind political candidates, no matter how small have a possible path to blue checkmarked verification status on Twitter for example.
It would appear the Russians have hacked and are dumping Hillary Clinton's emails again .... oh wait ... I am getting something in my earpiece ... "its not the Russians this time?"
Remember some of these headlines back in May? This is a fascinating BREAKING article in the Wall Street Journal about a service called Mixi(.)media. There a number of companies that do this where its not clear who the primary news source is #osint
We came across Mixi(.)media back in May when we were looking at #covid19 disinformation and looked at some of the odd Twitter accounts that were pushing the mixi(.)media stuff. #osint
This service like a number of others like it actually obscure who the true source behind the news banner is. Here are a few banner ad titles the Mixi(.)media redirect link and the final landing source. #osint