I feel vindicated by the courageous steps taken by @Harvard Dean Douglas Elmendorf who is reportedly firing Shorenstein Centre 'misinformation expert' @BostonJoan. I have been covering how Donovan has packed the centre with Twitter activists. open.substack.com/pub/dreoinleni…
In a statement on the Harvard Crimson website it was reported that Dean Douglas Elmendorf was winding down Donovan's multi-million dollar project - "The Technology and Social Change" thecrimson.com/article/2023/2…
Donovan had packed the multi-million dollar funded centre with hyper-partisan Twitter 'researchers' and 'journalists' such as Erin Gallagher, giving fellowships to disgraced former journalist Luke O'Brien and Brandy Zadrozny.
I am particularly happy for @thecamppugilist and the ADOS foundation who were the victims of the Shorenstein Centre's poor management and political bias. They found themselves the victims of an academic hit-piece that demonstrated the true rot at the Centre. See OP for article.
This is huge victory for academic integrity. @Harvard is arguably the biggest and most trusted brand name in international education. It was imperative that these meaningful steps to root out the activist rot in the Shorenstein Centre were taken.

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Feb 3
Important. @craignewmark financed Donovan’s work at Harvard & has pledged to continue funding her in the future. He is literally the largest funder of disinformation in the US. He has spent millions of dollars making sure journalism departments are activist breeding grounds.
@craignewmark In 2021 the Harvard Shorenstein Centre announced that Craig Newmark would fund Joan Donovan's Technology and Social Change project. shorensteincenter.org/newmark-suppor…
@craignewmark Newmark spent close to $200 million in the run up to the 2020 presidential election granting large sums to university journalism departments, in a bid to defeat Donald Trump. He claims to be motivate to defeat 'misinformation'. forbes.com/sites/angelauy…
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Feb 2
We now have definitive proof that Vitamin D was a powerful defence against COVID. Peer reviewed research from Italy shows that Vit D reduces need for hospitalisation by 72% and reduces risk of death by 51%.
I walked with thousands of anti-mandate protesters in Germany last winter. Time & again I heard people say that Vitamin C, D and Zinc were a powerful means of combatting COVID and offered a more natural means of fighting it. They were called *far-right* and *conspiracy theorists*
link.medium.com/7to6jzKJ5wb Here, I recount some of the reasons Germans took to the streets last winter. Their concerns were absolutely legitimate. They were abused by politicians, police and the media in a manner I have never before witnessed.
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Jan 17
I published an article in Quillette in 2019 which identified the leading Antifa journalists on Twitter. @MrAndyNgo has been blamed for writing and/or editing it & those accusations have lead to his hospitalisation, incalculable death threats & slander. Here's the reality. 🧵
In 2019 I published this Quillette article. It provided a now peer reviewed quantitative analysis of the Antifa network on Twitter. I was able to identify the most Antifa-connected journalists on here. quillette.com/2019/05/29/its…
The article went viral and I was almost immediately suspended from Twitter after a mass reporting campaign by Antifa, said Antifa journalists and other friends in the press. Therefore I was not able to defend myself or others from the torrent of lies that followed.
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Jan 10
A thread about how Antifa and Antifa journalists gaslight and outright lie about anyone who dares point out how they use Twitter to organise real world violence. @elonmusk 👇👇👇
In 2019 I wrote an article for @Quillette
which showed how certain members of the media have concerning connections with Antifa. That research passed peer review & was published with Social Network Analysis and Mining - a Springer journal. Find it here - rdcu.be/cCi4s
One of the most aggressive in her support for Antifa & Antifa journalists was Caroline Orr Bueno who participated in my deplatforming from Twitter & stated that she had read my paper & that "no legitimate academic journal is going to publish Lenihan's "study"..."
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Jan 7
I've been tracking the infiltration of the US University system by Antifa for several years. Here's a couple of articles that illustrate just how dire the situation is and why, if centrists and conservatives don't battle for our universities, the future is bleak. Thread 👇👇👇
In 2019 I conducted the largest quantitative analysis of Antifa on Twitter to date. It passed peer review and from that I was able to identify the most Antifa-connected professors in the USA.
open.substack.com/pub/dreoinleni…
.@FoxNews featured my research into how Antifa organise on college campuses. I spoke to them about how organisations like CAN (Campus Antifascist Network) allow Antifa to operate and intimitate on multiple American campuses with impunity. foxnews.com/us/college-cam…
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May 15, 2019
Going to do a long thread on the relationship between verified twitter accounts - focus on journalists - and Antifa. Warning, could be long.
We mapped the social interactions of 58,254 Antifa affiliated accounts on Twitter based on an initial seed of 16 self-identifying and verifiable Antifa accounts (and Mark Bray who chose not to confirm if he is a member of Antifa but whose book makes a solid case for inclusion). Image
We reduced the dataset to 1.65% of all 58,254 accounts - leaving us with 962 accounts. These were the 1.65% most connected Antifa and Antifa associated accounts on Twitter. Each had a minimum of 8 connections within the initial dataset, most having many more.
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