Thread by @SlickRockWeb

So Mr Jason Shoeaddict, one of the Facebook admins for the "Convoy to Ottawa 2022 group with 108,322 members that @PiperK notes in her great thread here is 100% a "ThisPersonDoesNotExist" GAN image. #OSINT #Disinfo #astroturf

https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1490495610646155272

Jason Shoeaddict works for National Geographic TV whatever that means & this particular Facebook group is being promoted by disgraced General Michael Flynn. This whole Trucker protest in Ottawa Canada, now growing to other locations in the EU & US, is being astroturfed. #OSINT

Jason Shoeaddict of course doesn't exist in Tineye. Not definitive by any means, however when u combine it with a couple other techniques we've discovered we can say with high confidence, that Jason is an image of a person that doesnt exist & is algorithmically generated (GAN)

Alot is going on behind the scenes among very good #OSINT researchers & its becoming clear that this Ottawa truck protest is much much bigger than some seemingly organic protest about vaccine mandates in #Canada Check out the @PiperK thread from the start

https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1490495566475939843

The Freedom Convoy 2022 group was found 2b using stock photography among other #astroturf techniques and amazingly generated over $10 million in donations via its GoFundMe page that was quickly setup and then promptly flagged for unusual activity. #OSINT

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1488996923860262912

A good thread from @DaveTroy showing this Trucker Convoy stuff in #Ottawa is being #astroturfed across many EU countries. It has alot of similarities to the #YellowVests movement which was heavily promoted & influenced by the Kremlin

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1489883460596649984

Here is a prior thread we did on the GAN image used by the white supremacist group Patriot Front back in December. It also contains a thread from @conspirator0 on AI generated GAN (generative adversarial network) images. #OSINT #disinfo

https://twitter.com/SlickRockWeb/status/1470423281635311625

Canadian white nationalist Ezra Levant & Rebel News have been all over the #Ottawa trucker protest & were filming & promoting it very early on. Canadian politician Candace Bergen (conservative MP) was one of the primary nodes on social media promoting hashtag #TruckersNotTrudeau

And of course pro-Kremlin mouthpieces and far-right American influencers have all poured gasoline on the Ottawa trucker protest fire for obvious reasons. Putin of course wants to hurt Trudeau who has long been a strong Ukrainian ally. #NATO

Besides the obvious chaos nefarious actors are exploiting from these Trucker convoy protests ... there is SERIOUS risk 2 public safety. Over the weekend convoy protestors attempted 2 torch an apartment complex downtown. Thankfully a passerby was able to put out the fire. But ...

https://twitter.com/3rdtimewalter/status/1490493795926159360

This is deeply disturbing ... from the so called peaceful #Ottawa trucker protest

https://twitter.com/timunoz/status/1490473045965815812

This is not all that different from the #Jan6th attempted coup in Washington DC. Generate alot of astroturfed anger & operations & get alot of unwitting "normies" involved 4 cover to exploit. This is coming 2 the US so @FBIWFO youve been warned again. Learn from #Ottawa & prepare

Well look at that Jason Shoeaddict also doubles as Russian freelancer Pavel Zakirov on the Kwork network. Well that is shock ... said no one ever. Nice find and cc by @ArbiterOfTweets and @j2dumfounded.

https://twitter.com/ArbiterOfTweets/status/1490596320117235712

So we ran our set of pro-Kremlin twitter trolls, a set of accnts we developed yrs back off of the original #Hamilton68 with refinements along the way. Depicted is the wordcloud of their tweets between Jan 26th - 30th. Not surprising, Ottawa & Ukraine were two big topics. #OSINT

This is a good refresher on what the #Hamilton68 twitter accounts were all about. Back in early 2018 ...I believe we figured out a way to reverse engineer 100's of these accounts and thus built our own set of accounts based largely off of the original set.

https://twitter.com/SecureDemocracy/status/968617218807418885

So it turns out there may be an actual Pavel Zakirov from Russia aka Jason Shoeaddict .... who get this .... owns a Russian trucking company. This is still 100% not his photo and its very possible he is completely unaware of all of this.