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Mar 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Now it gets good! "Two Saudi insiders have told me that my access to Saudi Arabia is finished after the story’s publication, and that the crown prince will “never” see me again."
MBS's quotes on Khashoggi modified to be more hypothetical Image
Apparently comparing people sympathetic to Qatar 'Nazis' is a sensitive issue. Who knew. Image
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"Second, if you think charm and intelligence are incompatible with being a sociopath, then your years in Washington, D.C., have taught you less than nothing"

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Mar 8
Thread 1/ This is a thread about suspicious amplification and engagement farming on #Ukraine-related hashtags. I highlight a rampant violation of Twitter's Ts & Cs that makes getting valuable info on Ukraine more burdensome #disinformation #UkraineRussiaWar Image
2/ Firstly the tactic. Many of you will have noticed that a lot of #Ukraine hashtags are dominated by the below types of tweets. Ones that say 'RT for Russia" or "like for Ukraine" - sometimes it's reversed. They have huge engagement levels.
#UkraineRussiaWar ImageImage
3/ I counted around 790 unique tweets, many with likes and RTs in the hundreds and thousands. So total engagement levels in the hundreds of thousands. This explains why many of these tweets appear in the 'top' tweets on #Ukraine hashtags ImageImage
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Mar 6
Thread / Major pro-Putin troll klaxon reveal! Some of you who read my thread the other day will remember one of the most influential tweets on the 'i stand with putin' hashtag. It was by @Dr_Adhira and had +12k likes & +5k RTs

#UkraineUnderAttaсk
#disinformation ImageImageImage
2/ 'Her' tweet was unequovical support for Putin. She also called Zelensky a clown. So strong words. At the time I said her profile picture looked like a stock photo, but could not confirm it.

Well now I can...

#Disinformation
#UkraineRussianWar ImageImage
3/ Yandex and Google returned nothing, but a reverse image search on Bing led me to the same person, but in a slightly different pose...

#disinformation Image
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Mar 5
Thread 1/ Important update on platform manipulation. Yesterday, Twitter announced they had banned over 100 accounts that pushed the 'I stand with Putin' hashtag 🥳. However, we can prove they missed many low hanging bots
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
#UkraineRussianWar
#disinformation
2/ If you remember from the other day I highlighted this cluster of bots. There are approximately 149 accounts here. These are all hacked accounts that used to belong to real people.

#UkraineUnderAttaсk
#disinformation
3/ As you can see, they are real accounts, with diverse creation dates, profiles and bios. These indicators of authenticity probably make it harder for Twitter to automatically detect them.
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Mar 4
1/ Prepare for the pedophile #propaganda, it is coming out in full force (again). This blog post by @AdinaF2boys being shared by some on Twitter is stating that Putin is bombing a Biden owned villa in #Ukraine and hammering paedophile rings. She refers to Biden as 'Pedo Joe'.
2/ I came across an interesting Spanish language newsite called @DigitalSevilla . It also published a story about Zelensky releasing paedophiles to fight the Russian army. Rather than being purely batshit, it's based on a real story about soldiers imprisoned for child pornography
3/ However it was interesting that it decided to frame the news as Zelensky 'releasing paedophiles', as if it were specifically them, not just those with military experience. The newsite does have a distinctly pro-Russian slant . See below > I wonder if any Spanish journalists
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Mar 4
🧵Thread 1/ OK, so we need to talk about Kevin (well, Steve Kevin)! Stand aside #TinderSwindler, meet the pro-Putin #TwitterSwindler. This is a thread about the wild crossover of romance scams & pro-Kremlin soc media propaganda

First up, meet Steve Kevin PhD
#UkraineRussianWar
2/ Steve has it all. A doctor who specializes in elbows, knee, all the joints, and erm, low [sic] back. He obviously loves kids, adults and erm, 'teen'. Oh yeah, he also loves Putin, and despite being an American (methinks), his English ain't so hot.

#Ukraine
#disinformation
3/ So Steve Kevin is standing with Putin, who, by the way, is not a warmonger like the West. He's not NATO, the EU, or the West....

....He's Putin 🇷🇺 ♥️

#UkraineRussianWar
#disinformation
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Mar 3
Thread 1/ Small update. On the hashtags 'I stand with Putin' and 'I stand with Russia', a new bot network has joined the fray. I have marked the cluster below. There are approx 100 bots in this cluster #UkraineRussianWar #disinformation Image
2/ All the accounts tweet from Twitter Web App, and use appropriated accounts (sock puppets). Their modus operandi is to retweet a few central accounts that are, appropriately, services that offer fake followers, fake retweets etc #UkraineRussianWar ImageImageImage
3/ The sockpuppets were real people whose accounts were hacked/sold. They come from everywhere. @VickiCotters for example, a British woman, who is now tweeting in Arabic. Her old tweets are still visible (there are photos but I won't include them). #UkraineUnderAttack ImageImageImage
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