โ๏ธTwitter Files 14: Russiagate LIES - "One of Greatest Outbreaks of Mass Delusion in ๐บ๐ธ History"
From the Trump-Russia investigation, to troll farms, bots and what actually turned out to be a mass media lie... ๐
... Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi has released his analysis from the latest file drop by Elon Musk. Here are the key findings:
๐Twitter officials were shocked they found NO evidence of Russian influence
๐Congressional trolls, including Dianne Feinstein, Adam Schiff and Richard Blumenthal, pushed the idea of ๐ท๐บ bots being behind #Releasethememo - despite warnings it was false
๐Republican Devin Nunes' report - which included calling out the Steele Dossier - was ignored by media and called a "joke". What Nunes detailed was later verified by the DoJ
๐Evidence based on ONE source with no proof - Hamilton 68 dashboard, which was created by a former FBI counterintelligence official. Twitter called it a "comms play"
๐Twitter compared situation to the book, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" (It wants milk and then repeats) - eventually the platform all but stopped challenging the disinformation
๐NBC, Politico, AP, Times, Business Insider, Rolling Stone all hammered the Russian bots theory - they have now refused to comment (along with the Democrats named above)
๐ Nunes: "Schiff and the Dems falsely claimed Russians were behind the Release the Memo hashtag [...] By spreading the Russian collusion hoax, they instigated one of the greatest outbreaks of mass delusion in US history"
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Biden Family Under Fire: โUkraine Ties, Classified Docs & Investigationsโ
The new GOP majority in the ๐บ๐ธ House opened their long-touted investigation into President Biden and his family Wednesday.
Republican-led committee has demanded financial information from Treasury Dept about transactions by Biden family members and testimony from former Twitter execs over handling of an October 2020 story from the New York Post about Hunter Bidenโs Ukraine energy firm business links.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is emerging deeper in his own Mar-a-Lago-style documents scandal, after a second batch of classified files were found in a garage 'storage space' in the President's Wilmington home, the White House counsel revealed Thursday.
Ukrainian Military Creating Kamikaze Drones Loaded with Chemical Weapon? Chilling Social Media Video
Men in camo uniforms and blue armbands are shown loading domestic drones - in an unverified video posted on Telegram - with what appears to be toxic hydrocyanic acid.
The substance was used in German concentration camps to exterminate Jews during WW2.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces โ allegedly the 63rd brigade โ reportedly assisted in the chemical weaponโs creation, the author of the video claims, adding there are already hundreds of them in circulation โ soon to be ramped up into their thousands.
โ๏ธMoscow Explains Appointment Of New Head Of Ukraine Operation
The head of the Russian General Staff, Army General Valery Gerasimov, has been appointed to lead Moscowโs joint forces group in Ukraine, the defense ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The former commander of the military operation, Army General Sergey Surovikin, has been made his deputy.
The need to โraise the operation command levelโ was linked to an โincreased scale of the combat missions,โ and the need for closer coordination between various services and branches of the armed forces, the ministry said.
WhatsApp has been allowed to pursue a lawsuit against the infamous spyware Pegasus, after a ruling by the US Supreme Court.
It's claimed Pegasus used a bug in the messaging services app to allow widespread surveillance of journalists, activists, dissidents and high-profile politicians.
Israeli firm NSO appealed it was immune to being sued because it acted on the instructions of unidentified foreign governments when installing the spy tools.
Ex-Soviet State Refuses To Return Weapons To ๐บ๐ฆ
Georgia is refusing to hand back Kiev-supplied weaponry amid the conflict with Russia, the Ukrainian chargรฉ dโaffaires has claimed. Andrey Kasyanov raised the issue in a piece written for the Yevropeyskaya Pravda (European Truth).
โThe Ukrainian side is consistent in its requests to all its international partners, including Georgia, for the provision of weapons, military equipment and ammunition,โย Kasyanov wrote.
โNamely, Kiev has asked to hand back the Buk [anti-aircraft] systems, which were transferred by Ukraine to Georgia during the 2008 war.โ
Cardinal Claims โSecret Plotโ To Oust Pope Francis โ Media
Following the death of Pope Benedict XVI, a group of cardinals in the Vatican has embarked on a project to pressure the sitting Pope Francis to resign, an unnamed cleric told the Turin-based La Stampa.
This revelation of a supposedly secret plot has been picked up by other outlets, notably several tabloids in the UK.
The Express and the Daily Mail both published their versions of the story on Monday, referring to an article that appeared in La Stampa the day before.