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4 Oct, 37 tweets, 20 min read
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:

You can play along at home:

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The Daily Mail, absolutely no surprise there.

Q: Why is it important for Western publications to report the news accurately, and understand the meanings of the words they're using?

A: Because SPUTNIK is reporting the story accurately.

#ADIZ #Taiwan

and again

...and we've got syndication of the misinformation / disinformation folks! 🚀

Now it will spread like wildfire to everywhere, and editors around the world will just copy & paste, not fact-checking anything, and publish. Watch!

There are multiple Microsoft News accounts, they'll all pick it up and amplify the misinformation or disinformation. Now that it's in their CMS, there's no way any member of the public can stop it; it's going to force-fed it to everyone who uses Bing.
I would like to sincerely thank @DWNews for writing the best and most complete explanation of airspace vs ADIZ I have ever seen in any news publication; absolutely incredible and thank you so much.

dw.com/en/chinas-taiw…
and another; reach 115K followers.

The Daily Express, of course, with a reach of ~897,400 people. #misinformation or #disinformation? It's pretty clear who is pumping this story; it's the usual suspects.

Reach? 39.2K followers.

Newsmax, a reach in the millions when you add those tagged; all being told that the Chinese committed an act of war, that they didn't do. Can we please focus on damning China for what they actually do, and not make things up? Why is that so hard?

🇬🇧 Daily Mail again, because they're incapable of learning.

🇺🇸 More Newsmax. 432K followers.🤦‍♂️

🇬🇧 The Daily Mail, again; I assume they only employ masochists. Their reach is 2.6M; 100% of them are now misinformed.

How much of this is misinformation, and how much is disinformation? 🤷‍♂️ We already found the missile industry lobbyists hyping the ADIZ flights yesterday, and now one of the kings of disinformation himself; Pompeo! 👇
I'm live-tweeting fake-news coverage, to show you if these are mistakes, real journos will fix them, if it's an actual campaign to intentionally misinform, hopefully I'm ruining their day, and you'll see who doesn't fix anything, b/c it's not their choice.
Not all the Germans got the message. h/t @bolli3097

I could do some translation and search for the right "airspace" terms in German, I've got my hands full with English; it DOES go to show misinformation / disinformation spreads in multiple languages.

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Quoting a New York Times article that debunks their own tweet is a flex. ~29K followers.

The @DailyMail is like a cancer that spreads disinformation. It doesn't know what else to do. It's genetic.

BBC journo, 15K followers.

It's a fact that no Chinese aircraft were in Taiwanese airspace.
Nope. Another 6K misinformed followers.

*boom*

BBC.

Check out the engagement. Influencer numbers. 🤦‍♂️

Nope. Wrong again.

Republican Congressman Greg Steube, Mr Florida Man nominee, and push-broom mustache aficionado, also has trouble telling the difference between sovereign airspace and the ADIZ.

They've never been in Taiwan's airspace. Politico writers dance to the beat of their own drum, and make up their own news for sh!ts and giggles.

If I was out of toilet paper I wouldn't use The Daily Mail to dab my own daisy.

Washington Times. *sigh*

I'm sure this if fine; the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee doesn't know the difference between sovereign airspace and the Air Defence Identification Zone, so we know whose propaganda their briefings are being contaminated with.
God help us
Bizarro-world continues.

I'm astonished when I find someone who's actually reading this right.

It's just a bold faced lie, but did they know that when they went to press?

The one and only Seb Gorka, with 1.1M followers who now think China is *checks notes* INVADING their airspace. This is fine. 😢

Fantastic map of the Taiwan ADIZ and sovereign airspace making the image very clear; CN is flying nowhere near TW sovereign airspace.

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2 Oct
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. 🤷‍♂️

They're not alone. Image
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. 👇

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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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