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2 Oct, 23 tweets, 10 min read
Reminder: a check mark has nothing to do with accuracy or integrity, and @eha_news is clearly not a trustworthy source. They published misinformation at best, or disinformation they were not aware of, and issued no corrections or retractions when corrected. 🤷‍♂️

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It is rare for @dwnews to fall for this, but they fell for it too. 🤦‍♂️

The narrative wasn't corrected at the onset it's now spread like wildfire. Finding the same lie across multiple checkmarked accounts does not make it true. Parroting a lie doesn't absolve journalists from reporting the truth, and this isn't it. 👇

They did no such thing.

You can find random academics getting this wrong too, spreading the misinformation or disinformation; it's not limited to tabloids.

This is what I expect from The Daily Express, false, but expectedly so.

These are the usual suspects who get it wrong every time for clicks. It's intentional. As usual, they sensationalized the story until it was "Fake News"; no incursion in Taiwanese airspace happened, but half the world read that this morning in the paper.

Oh look what I found! The missile industry is hyping this story so they can sell more missiles to Taiwan; now do you see who benefits from spreading misinformation/disinformation about the Chinese flying through the international airspace that is the ADIZ?
...and The Sun, of course. 🤦‍♂️

The difference between airspace and ADIZ is akin to the difference between death and murder. You don't confuse death and murder in a news article, so don't confuse airspace with the ADIZ.
Is it Oktoberfest in Germany?
Can I blame this on a hangover?
They're usually so much more accurate. 🤷‍♂️

Their follow-up tweet to the initial completely inaccurate one tries to correct the error, but they don't seem to know what the terms mean, and get the terminology wrong. Better, I guess? 🤦‍♂️

Even @Reuters isn't immune. They can't spell out Air Defence Identification Zone. 🤦‍♂️

#ADIZ

Fox News couldn't resist distorting the Taiwan ADIZ story into the Chinese jets "buzzing" the island. That's beyond sensational, it's a fabrication.
#FoxNews #FakeNews

So @Reuters, @dwnews, and @FoxNews are all using the wrong terms to describe airspace vs #ADIZ, and all three have invented the new term:"air defence zone", which has no meaning. Congratulations, you're just making up the news now.

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Another major network falls prey to misinformation, or disinformation, with a push down the stairs by Reuters. This time Australia's state-funded broadcaster, @abcnews was duped into printing the Chinese violated Taiwanese airspace, and that's a lie.

They've even misinformed a Canadian VAdm (ret) in Australia, and if he can't tell the difference between the truth and misinformation, what hope does Joe Public have?

Add @CNN to the list of misinformation/disinformation spreaders about the incursion into Taiwanese airspace that didn't happen.

MUCH OF THE TAIWANESE AIR DEFENCE IDENTIFICATION ZONE IS INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE, NOT TAIWANESE SOVEREIGN AIRSPACE.

The Irish press is traditionally abysmal at this and I'm not at all surprised they don't know the difference between soverign airspace and the Air Defence Identification Zone #ADIZ.

Welcome Axios to the party.

I really appreciated Axios' take last time too.

Thank you Zach!

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Steffan Watkins 📡✈️ Profile picture
4 Oct
How many media organisations, alleged-journalists, and pundits, will display their ignorance by not looking up what an Air Defence Identification Zone #ADIZ is, and call it #Taiwan's airspace, which it is not.

Let's keep a running tab; I've dragged many of them previously.
In no particular order:

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You can play along at home:

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2 Oct
Kick back, this is an OSINT treat: 🍿

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-144D Challenger 144620 (one of the new ones) departed #Ottawa #CYOW on 2021-09-26 with callsign #CFC3080, very likely carrying General Wayne Eyre, the acting Chief of the Defence Staff.

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#C2C1FB #CDS Image
When the CDS visited #CFBBagotville his plane's callsign was #CFC3040.

After a brief stop in Prestwick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, they flew to Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Constanta 🇷🇴, and used the same callsign the whole trip. Image
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28 Sep
🇺🇸🇷🇺 Can we confirm this TASS story using only publicly available flight data of a #USAF reconnaissance plane's mission earlier today?

Yes we can, and at the same time we deflate their spin.

This is a great example PAOs can use re the benefits of #OSINT.
tass.com/defense/1343469
Not only can we identify the plane's departure and arrival time from Crete, that was #USAF RC-135W Rivet Joint 62-4126 #AE1253 using callsign #ZEUS21.

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We also see very clearly the sensor being used is on the right hand side of the plane; they conduct the pass at ~370kn, turn around as fast as they can (~450kn+), and make another pass, three times. Their departure wasn't forced, they were done; they left at ~420kn; not that fast
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23 Sep
🇨🇦 The #RCAF #14WingGreenwood newsletter "The Aurora" is really well done; newsletters feel pre-digital to me, but I'm not anti-newsletter. I can't help but read these articles about #413SQN #SAR and know they'd make fantastic Twitter content.

auroranewspaper.com
If #14WingGreenwood was interested in publicising the tempo of their SAR operations w/ @hfxjrcc they could investigate transmitting ADS-B from their CH-149, CC-130H, and other aircraft. Mode-S alone doesn't transmit lat/lon, and reduces public visibility of their operations.
Yes, I'd love them to start using ADS-B with the CP-140M Block 4 fleet too, but I don't think they're going to improve the visibility of our sub-hunters, which are extremely busy on ops and exercises, and hardly ever mentioned in the news.
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23 Sep
🇨🇦 I know you want to know more about how the sausage is made, so look carefully at this image from 2021-09-22, yesterday, when RCAF CC-130J 130610 was flying some training flights over Ontario, and see what information you can extract.

I'll show you:
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The network of transponder receivers collects the data the plane is transmitting with an omnidirectional antenna. Any plane using ADS-B, like that one, only needs to be "heard" by one ground station and it's coordinates (from their transponder) relayed to #ADSBexchange.
The green circles show where receivers (which the operators of have opted to make their location public, like I have) are feeding the ADSBexchange network from.
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22 Sep
🇨🇦🇨🇴 Someone with better intel on Canadian-Colombian military relations might recognize what these flights are indicative of; I don't. Before I lose track of which Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130J transports flew to #Colombia in September for an exercise(?), lets document them.
First, remember that the RCAF CC-130H fleet stay at home like red headed step children; they do SAR and other domestic taskings. We just need to watch where the CC-130J fleet has been internationally.

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-130J Fleet:
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Secondly, remember that a callsign stays the same for an entire mission; same callsign, same mission. Dropping off/picking up the same people, returning from dropping things off, or brining things back; it would all be one callsign.

Sequential call-signs are usually related too.
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