Thread by @emptywheel

Here's a claim from #MattyDickPics' latest SubStack. In it, he suggests that cloud platforms have better visibility on the authenticity and location of their traffic than the public.

It's utterly devastating to #MattyDickPics continued PR for RU on 2016

taibbi.substack.com/p/america-need…

In fact, it goes to the heart of #MattyDickPics' screaming ignorance abt attribution of the 2016 hack-and-leak: Not only did FBI attribute to RU, based off BOTH forensics from the targets AND evidence from cloud platforms, not only did security companies, but so did the platforms

Worse still, Twitter is not Facebook (or Google or Microsoft, all of which have FAR better visibility & tech than Twitter has ever attempted (cf @dotMudge).

Even in what #MattyDickPics has covered, there are indications that Twitter doesn't have perfect attribution.

@dotMudge #MattyDickPics says: "It’s over, you nitwits. It’s time to stow the Mueller votive candles, cop to the coverage pileup created by years of errors, and start the reconciliation process" in a piece that DEVASTATES every claim he has ever made about the 2016 attribution.

@dotMudge Here #MattyDickPics is, saying that you have to believe the Cloud companies.

And ALL the cloud companies say he's dead wrong about 2016 attribution. He'll have to retract an entire book of his!!!

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1613651258237231137

@dotMudge This claim is a misrepresentation--more Gas Highlighting of the sort self-described reverse chauvinists for Russia use rather than analysis.

emptywheel.net/2020/01/08/nun…

@dotMudge In fact, the ACTUAL REPORT is consistent with some of the things #MattyDickPics includes. Nunes' was a misrepresentation of classified information (so was Shiff's).

emptywheel.net/2020/01/08/nun…

@dotMudge This screencap is classic #MattyDickPics. First, note that he mentions Steve King and WikiLeaks, but not Don Jr.

@dotMudge But January 2018, when this started, was just weeks after an attempted exfiltration attempt of Julian Assange by ... Russia.

@dotMudge Ultimately, though--and this is fucking hilarious--#mattydickpics big reveal is that a single solitary Senator did something stupid even though experts told him he was being stupid.

@dotMudge Some other things that are nutty about #MattyDickPics' latest -- he doesn't mention that REPUBLICANS also were taken in by the dashboard, like when Jim Lankford says the TakeAKnee hashtag was coordinated.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r…

@dotMudge Nor does #MattyDickPics admit that NONE OF THIS IS NEW. In fact, @oneunderscore__ (a frequent target of people like #MattyDickPics), along with @attackerman, wrote about it in real time.

thedailybeast.com/source-twitter…

@dotMudge @oneunderscore__ @attackerman Anyway, I think the Dashboard was shite. Unlike #MattyDickPics I wrote about it -- and the Alfa Bank allegations and the dossier -- in real time.

emptywheel.net/2018/01/24/the…