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Jan 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW @FreeBeacon
Tens of millions of school kids will soon have a tool to identify news misinformation, thanks to a partnership between American Federation of Teachers and a liberal watchdog group, NewsGuard. freebeacon.com/latest-news/te…
The irony here is that union head Randi Weingarten has repeatedly spread misinformation to support school lockdowns.

And NewsGuard's founder dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as likely "phony" and the product of a Russian disinformation effort.
One of NewsGuard's biggest funders is the Knight Foundation, which is funding Nikole Hannah-Jones' journalism chair at Howard University.
9 out of 10 of NewsGuard's biggest misinformation sites are conservative or pro-life. They most trustworthy list includes NPR, the outlet that screwed up the SCOTUS story last week

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Jan 21
Islamist groups waged a misinformation campaign about Aafia Siddiqui in the months before a terrorist took hostage a synagogue in her name.

CAIR was a catalyst for the renewed interest in Siddiqui's case in recent months. freebeacon.com/national-secur…
CAIR hadn't weighed in much on Siddiqui until August, after reports that she was attacked in prison. CAIR's Dallas-Fort Worth office jumped to the case and pushed vague and unverified claims about the attack on Siddiqui.

That alleged attack has been a rallying cry to her case.
CAIR officials made inconsistent claims about her case. In August, an official said she was no longer in solitary confinement. A month later, at a rally outside her prison, the same official said she had been in solitary for 48 days.
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Jan 11
NEW @FreeBeacon
Two members of a Chinese Communist Party advisory group serve on the board of @Yale's Beijing center.

They serve alongside the founder of controversial Chinese tech giant Tencent. Yale refuses to say whether Tencent has given $ to school.
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
Yale Center Beijing has held events promoting China's initiatives. They hosted an event about Belt & Road that was broadcast on state-controlled CGTN.

In 2019, hosted an event w/ the head of NBA China touting cooperation. Months later, China banned NBA games b/c of Hong Kong
In 2018, the Center hosted an event w/ Tencent and an official w/ China's State Council regarding AI. Significant timing, because the State Council had just issued a directive laying out China's plans to take over AI field by 2030.
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Nov 16, 2021
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Bush family scion is co-sponsoring an event in China this week with executives from a blacklisted Chinese military contractor that reportedly launched the hypersonic missile that has worried US military. freebeacon.com/national-secur…
Bush is co-sponsoring the International Symposium for the Peaceful Use of Space. Despite the benign sounding name, top officials from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) are co-chairing the event.
The Biden and Trump admins blocked Americans from doing business with CASC because of its service to the People's Liberation Army.
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Nov 10, 2021
This might be my favorite of @maddow's Steele dossier segments. The Danchenko indictment really destroyed it. Mini-thread:
The segment is titled "More Pieces of Donald Trump Russia Dossier Check Out."

In typical Maddow fashion, she spent 20 minutes dissecting a pretty minor allegation in the dossier: that Russia suddenly recalled its diplomat Mikhail Kalugin because of his involvement in hacking.
Maddow asserted that Kalugin was suddenly recalled to Moscow, to everyone's surprise. She cited a McClatchy report that Kalugin was on US govt's radar (a Russian diplomat on our radar, whoa if true).
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Nov 5, 2021
I watched @benjaminwittes's convo with @petestrzok regarding the Danchenko indictment. It was the joke I expected. Here's a thread.
One semi-surprise up top was that Strzok said that he agreed that Danchenko's lies merited criminal charges. But besides that admission, Strzok spends the rest of his analysis criticizing Durham and defending the FBI.
One thing Strzok and Wittes do is downplay the significance of the dossier to the FBI's overall investigation of Trump-Russia. They acknowledge its role in the Carter Page FISA. They say the FBI chased down the leads, but didn't really use the dossier that much.
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Oct 18, 2021
Watched the @GStephanopoulos doc on Chris Steele. As expected, it's overly sympathetic towards Steele, albeit with some strong criticism from @BarryMeier. Mini thread:
The most glaring problem with the documentary is it does not name Steele collector Igor Danchenko or go into the many problems with Danchenko's collection methods, i.e. poorly placed sub-sources, mental health issues, alcoholism.
ABC's Pierre Thomas nods at how poorly placed the source network is, but it's mentioned in passing and not revisited. Basically, Danchenko would be the more useful interview in terms of knowing about how the dossier came together. Steele was merely a middleman.
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