So I had a very odd experience on Twitter dot com today. If you've followed me awhile you're probably familiar with the robotexts I get for "Jenean Lapriola." I had a long thread w/ screenshots; they were all sent from fake phone numbers.
Well that thread died a death today. 😂
I've been on Twitter for 12 years and have never once been locked out of my account.
Twitter made me delete the tweets for "posting private information" 😂 There are a few tweets left online:
Again, the robotexts came from *fake phone numbers*
I can see how the texts in those screenshots might look like legit phone numbers (if you completely ignore the context) so Twitter's reporting system was just doing its job NBD
24 tweets total were reported. I don't even know how long that thread was tbh
Anyway, I appealed and am already out of Twitter jail.
So someone has been rummaging through my timeline. They're probably looking for tweets to report. I am not protecting my account so have fun whoever you are.
BTW this is what I've been tweeting about the past few. days. Could it be related? 🤔
So the 2014 @TheAtlantic article by @MattiFriedman that @AP said was "filled with distortions, half-truths and inaccuracies" has now been cited in a variety of right-wing media and blogs, some of which are receiving massive diffusion on social media.
47K are from Ted Cruz who posted it with the text "When the corporate media literally shares office space with Hamas terrorists, should anyone be surprised that they report anti-Israel & anti-America propaganda?"
2. The Blaze: 20,192 Facebook interactions
They cited Matti Friedman in the lede (included in screenshot)
This is the retweet network for 17,763 tweets from the past 48 hours containing AP + Hamas. The @AP node looks like it's being stretched because many people are mentioning the account. Larger labels are accounts w/ popular tweets. Some tweets are supporting AP others are... not.
The claim Posobiec tweeted which also made the Daily Fail today references a 2014 article by @MattiFriedman that's circulating again this week. What was not widely circulated was @AP's response that said the 2014 piece was "filled with distortions, half-truths and inaccuracies."
Eylon Levy also tweeted the 2014 story, among other things. Also included in the top left quadrant is @adamjohnsonNYC dragging @brianstelter after Stelter asked @SallyBuzbee about the 2014 report in an interview live on CNN yesterday.
Prison Planet saved a few of the Ricky Vaughn memes in a blog where he said there was zero evidence anyone was tricked into not voting. 🙃 Here's an archive so you don't have to click on Prison Planet: web.archive.org/web/2018081923…
Heads up on this unreleased report that Yahoo News got advanced access to... there's no way to confirm where an administrator is located (not via OSINT data and not via CrowdTangle) and there's quite a huge caveat that their methods of ID'ing admins are not “an exact science”
This claim also seems 1. wrong 2. impossible to confirm or falsify and 3. extremely irresponsible to put in any report
I hesitate to even link to the article. A former State Department official is one of the authors of the (currently unreleased) report from the Soufan Center.
Analysis was done by a *for-profit* agency called Limbik that uses proprietary tools/methods limbik.com/about.html
They're "a full-service Data Studio" doing what they call "Content Science' to "create, develop and distribute video content." (sounds like digital marketing IDK)
Interesting difference in description about who exactly developed this software. Wikipedia calls them “Chinese dissidents in Silicon Valley” who are “Falun Gong practitioners” but on the Ultrareach website they’re just “a small group of Silicon Valley engineers” 🤔
Being closed source is enough of a red flag but its developers (ie: Falun Gong) have access to user logs and it censors certain websites for ideological reasons (because Falun Gong)
El Pais investigation reports the Mexican Attorney General's Office (FGR) signed at least 4 contracts worth $5.6M for surveillance equipment Geomatrix, used for real-time cell phone geolocation & geofencing from Israeli firm Rayzone Group. r3d.mx/2021/04/14/fis… via @R3Dmx 1/
FGR also bought a SIGINT system called ECHO from Rayzone. Per their website, ECHO is a "fully stealth method of collection on any internet user" (any device or operating system) and can also do “mass collection of all Internet users in a country.” rayzone.com/echo-global-vi… 2/