I’m like scratching my eyes trying to triple confirm this is really real and they’re really doing this
Congratulations. A country already half off the edge of a legitimacy crisis b/c half the country doesn’t trust the gov’t or institutions anymore will now face a full-blown legitimacy crisis.
You lost 100 million people for generations today.
And GOOD LUCK to our current cadre of diplomatic corps at the State Dept.
Eagerly awaiting the response from Georgia, Serbia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia when you invoke “Rule Of Law! Rule Of Law!” as a sanctions predicate after today.
We just watched the current president’s son snort blow with hookers then pay for sex with crack rocks
Live feed of the State Dept
And yes, I do consider this indictment a State Dept operation.
Manhattan DA was paid for by Soros.
Soros is the State Dept’s cut-out in Ukraine. Ukraine Crisis Media Center & 50+ NGOs jointly funded by State & Soros there.
Exactly right. The first people (CIA-funded, no less) to holler from the hills about “realistic deepfakes” were the first people to start circulating them.
To be clear, I have no problem with people using Midjourney 5 or other AI software to make hyper realistic images. This is, in many ways, a continuation and evolution of the “meme magic” that made the Golden Age of the Internet.
Yes. Awesome to see this get mass attention. At @FFO_Freedom, we have been banging the drum about the National Science Foundation's domestic censorship AI superweapons program -- and the 'Course Correct' project specifically -- for 6 months now.
If you're new here, here's a giant thread we did on where Internet censorship incubator 'Course Correct' is housed, the NSF's Convergence Accelerator Track F program:
The guy who did this is Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat. Ironically, Bellingcat is used by the US & UK intelligence community to make "Russian disinfo" judgments about info online.
Bellingcat is funded by the CIA front & State Dept-funded National Endowment for Democracy.
🧵 Here’s a thread on DOD’s psychological operations social science research program, the Minerva Initiative, and its connection to the censorship industry:
A lot of people may look at the following social science research grants and wonder: what the heck is the US Department of Defense doing funding all this?
It’s odd enough that the government is spending taxpayer dollars, but why the Pentagon, specifically?
A lot of people think of DOD as being about guns, missiles, tanks and bombs.
So they see DOD funding on climate change and say “that’s woke!” Or funding on alternative governance and say “that’s WEF!” Or funding on stopping conspiracy theories online and say “they hate speech!”
Also run out of Atlantic Council, a Burisma lobbyist with a formal agreement to send Burisma deal flow.
Also run out of Graphika, recipient of $7 million in DOD grants/contracts. Given DOD’s dominant role in Covid policy, its funding of Covid censorship orgs is… notable.
Rep. Massie: DHS efforts are already underway to add censorship of "financial misinformation" to CISA's portfolio of "critical infrastructure" domains it can classify tweets as a cyber attack on, & thus censor. See, e.g., link below:
DHS's censorship subcommittee at CISA is chaired by Kate Starbird. Kate Starbird (alongside Alex Stamos) ran EIP and Virality Project, who DHS deputized to censor the 2020 election and Covid-19.