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Mar 13, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Thread 1/ Ok if you didn't think disinformation could get more nuts, read on how about QAnon-types are using Trump's weird pronunciation of China to shift Covid19 blame from China now to #Ukraine. It is fascinating how Q will jump through hoops to support Russian propaganda
2/ Firstly. The emerging trope. Wait for it.

Remember how Trump used to pronounce China? CHI-NA, or erm, CHY-NA (this different spelling is of course key)

If you've forgotten, here's a video of Trump just saying China

#ukraine #disinformation
3/ Well some have realised that there is a place in #Ukraine called Chyna (well not really but we will get to that). Trump was firm in his accusation that China manufactured the virus. You see where this is going... #UkraineWar
4/ Some diligent person unfamiliar with linguistics and maybe even languages in general also ran 'chyna' through Google translate. It translates from Ukrainian as 'price'. And remember Trump said China will "pay a big PRICE' *insert mind blown emoji*.

...*mic drop*

#Ukraine
5/ Funnily enough, people can't seem to agree which CHYNA they mean. I've seen at least two examples being used of anglified names of Ukrainian settlements including Troieshchyna and Shypl'chyna. Perhaps a ukrainian speaker may know what this is, is it diminutive?
6/ Anyway, it's clearly immaterial, since 1) even if there was a place called Chyna, - wait do I actually need to explain this - it's a misspelled coincidence 2) it's obviously a suffix of some sort
7/ That hasn't stopped some someone digging out the *deleted* documents from the US Embassy in Kyiv's website about US biolabs (remember, they weren't deleted, that wasn't true, but it adds to the conspiracy element). In it they note one of the 'biolabs' is near CHYNA
8/ In case you missed that reference, a Bulgarian journalist claimed US Embassy in Kyiv had deleted documents about US biolabs in Ukraine. (They didn't, they are still there). This conspiracy was retweeted by the Chinese assistant minister of foreign affairs to his 1.1m followers
9/ Anyway, many others tweeted this 'deleted documents' conspiracy. It went viral. I confronted the original journalist who spread it, she blocked me. Also it didn't stop a former fox news producer from blogging it
10/ This conspiracy is now filtering out on Twitter, reddit, and various blogs.
11/ So the TLDR is QAnon's are saying that the biolabs in Ukraine (chyna) are actually what Trump meant. The insinuation being that Ukraine started Covid19 through US-funded biolabs. So really, it was the US, and the dems, and Hunter biden. Absolutely bats. Peace #Ukraine
12/ This is a good read too on #disinformation synergies between Russia and China. I'm not implying the preceding story is all scripted, but it shows an interesting overlap between Q, Russian and Chinese narratives brookings.edu/techstream/chi… #ukraine
13/ I should also add for those don't know, Twitter essentially banned a lot of QAnon accounts from their platform back in 2020/21 - as well as harmful QAnon conspiracies cbsnews.com/news/qanon-twi…

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Dec 21
1/ 🧵This graph shows X posts by impressions in the first six hours after the Magdeburg attack. Specifically these are posts falsely attributing the attack to an Islamist terror attack or a Syrian, or using it as an opportunity to attack immigration or muslims #disinformation Image
2/ The usual suspects are there - that is, the anti-Islam disinfluencers (routine spreaders of disinformation). As you can see, one of the most widely viewed is @visegrad24 - who shared at least 6 posts falsely claiming the attacker was an Islamist Image
3/ The posts falsely claiming that the attacker was a Muslim or Islamist gained at least 38,000,000 views. False claims that he was Syrian resulted in around 8.4million views (remember this is just an approx 6 hour period). Image
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Nov 20
🧵1/ I analysed the headline and lead paragraph of 536 English news articles including the terms "Maccabi" + "Amsterdam" and classified them using Claude 3.5 Sonnet to determine how many framed Israelis as victims or non-Israelis as primary victims (as well as both). Image
2/ The results are fairly striking. 65% of articles frame Israelis as the victim, while only 5% frame Non-Israelis as victims. 24% are neutral while 9% framed both groups as victims. Quite clear the media emphasised violence as anti-Israeli and antisemitic, especially early on Image
3/ There isn't much evidence too of corrective framing at this point, although a small increase in neutral framing a week after the incident. Israeli victimhood was categorised as emphasis of violence initiated by non-Israelis, and focus on anti-Israeli or antisemitic violence
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Nov 14
🧵 1/ Part of understanding what is going on in Amsterdam is also to understand the coordinated anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant campaigns run with huge amounts of money targeting Europe. Here's a short private Eye article about an investigation I did with @SohanDsouza
2/ Here's a write-up by @karamballes on the campaign in @BylineTimes "Disinformation Campaign on Social Media Reached More Than 40 Million People – but Meta ‘Alarmingly’ Hasn't Revealed the Culprits' bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/qat…
@karamballes @BylineTimes 3/ ...How a covert influence campaign helped Europe’s far right

Our findings about the shadowy multi-platform operation attacking Qatar and stoking Islamophobia to further its far-right agenda in Europe and beyond call for immediate action. aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…
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Nov 9
🧵🚨1/ This is nuts. After mysteriously deleting a package covering the Amsterdam protests, Sky News have put up a new version. The new version completely changes the thrust to emphasise that the violence was antisemitic. See the opening screenshot change below Image
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2/Even the tweet accompanying the video has changed. It has explicitly shifted from mentioning anti-Arab slogans to removing the phrase "anti-Arab" and using antisemitism. It also removes mention of vandalism by Israeli fans. An extremely clear editorial shift! Image
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3/ They have also inserted into the video, right after the opening footage of Dutch Prime Minister condemning antisemitsm. This was not in the original video. Image
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Nov 8
1/ If you break down the BBC's live reporting of what happened in Amsterdam, you can see the disproportionate attention it pays to Maccabi fans and Israelis as victims, with far less attention paid to the actions of Maccabi fans. Here are the sources interviewed. Image
2/ In terms of mentions of Arab, Dutch or other Ajax fans, there is very little emphasis on Arab safety, with the majority of coverage focused on Maccabi fans as victims. There are vox pops with fans, but very little interaction with non-Maccabi people. Image
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3/ The language used to describe the attacks on the Maccabi fans is also much stronger, ranging from pogroms to brutal and shocking. Similar terms aren't use for the anti-Arab racism. Image
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Nov 8
🚨1/ This New York Times piece is wild. Let's go through it.

Firstly, the lede is an emphasis that attacks in Amsterdam were based on antisemitism, yet it cites no evidence of this, but DOES cite evidence of anti-Arab chants. Image
2/ The claims of antisemitism are based primarily on the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, who tweeted that the attacks were antisemitic. Note - the Dutch Prime Minister didn't call out anti-Arab or anti-Palestinian racism from Maccabi fans. Image
3/ The piece links to an Amsterdam police statement to talk about the violence - although the police statement doesn't mention anything about antisemitism. Image
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