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25 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Huh another PR firm doing a disinformation 🤔
Fwiw this trend did not begin in 2019, I think that’s just when social media platforms started publicly attributing campaigns to PR firms
I don’t want to throw every PR person under the disinfo bus but I have questions as to how prevalent shady PR campaigns are in the industry as a whole.
I’ve been tweeting about this for awhile

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24 May
A lot of people are salty about the Intercept's piece on the Riot Squad so I put the link in ahrefs backlink checker to see who has linked back to it. Daily Caller, Pajamas Media, VDare, Natural News, angry right wing blogs and... this odd coupon website. allcoupons.org/proud-right-wi… ImageImage
I have no idea what this is or why there are news links in the coupons. One of the coupons linked to a "Proud Right Winger" Facebook page that is no longer online. Another links to proud right winger dot com so I went there. ImageImage
I used the Crowdtangle Chrome extension to see where this lovely website is being shared. Crowdtangle shows shares going back a few years but I went to these 2 top referral pages to start. Image
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21 May
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. 😂 ImageImageImageImage
I've been on Twitter for 12 years and have never once been locked out of my account. Image
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*
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18 May
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.

🧵of top performers:
1. Red State: 49,101 Facebook interactions

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?" Image
2. The Blaze: 20,192 Facebook interactions

They cited Matti Friedman in the lede (included in screenshot) Image
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18 May
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.

@AP's 2014 response: web.archive.org/web/2016101102…
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26 Apr
Filed to: tweets that did not age well archive.ph/hksuE
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…

Criminal complaint: justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
Prison Planet was right about one thing, it was part of a trolling campaign. A campaign that co-opted HRC's style guide:

"Keep the memes SQUARE. Some should use the same fonts/colors/styles as her official campaign to co-opt her branding." erin-gallagher.medium.com/advanced-meme-…
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19 Apr
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)
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