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@JoohnChoe
Jun 17 • 7 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Well, OK, guess I can say it now:

Daou's app was fucking stupid. Verrit was fucking stupid.

Y'all wanna see a fucking stupid app?

Here, let me show you -

This.

This is a fucking stupid app.

"Durr, maybe if we just put the truth in front of everyone with like a fuckin' number and call it a 'VERRIT' then it will automatically fix disinformation"

Jesus H, are you fuckin' serious

You know what it is today?

It's not even a failed company, because failed companies gracefully wind down and remove themselves from the public space.

No, Verrit is a meme company, not like Gamestop, but more like Enron or Toys 'R' Us.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/ve…
If these events were in reverse order - that is, if he'd first worked for Williamson, then gone all loopy-toxic-left, then just started saying outright stupid shit - then we'd recognize Daou for what he is: recognizably stupid.

Instead we're left with the pathetic spectacle of yet another resistance-movement hanger-on now maintaining relevance by working with increasingly marginal, shitty people.

Like, don't you have money? Can't you just fuck off to Aruba and sit on a beach?

Why don't you do that
You know the only relevance Verrit has today?

As an object example of failure in the precise domain that #NAFO is excelling at.

Honestly if it's not, like, compromise or money you owe keeping you in the game, at a point like this, dude

Just retire

If he'd retired after Verrit failed at least we'd remember him as the guy who worked for Hillary and tried a fact-checking app

Now he's a laughingstock

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Jun 18
So, it used to be somewhat of a puzzle why Russia funded anti-vaxxer disinfo. They've actually done that for years, before COVID.

It's interesting to revisit the issue now, past-COVID and during Russia's war on Ukraine, and especially in contrast to what China's doing -
- now that there's more scholarly & think-tank papers and studies on it.

You can get into all sorts of participative guessing games with this sort of question ("What is 'things a corrupt kleptocracy throws at the wall?"). And there's certainly some fun in that. Image
But in the heavy-lifting moments when you actually read all the literature that's out there, sort the chaff and misinfo out and figure out what's more or less going on... you realize, there's some non-trivial ideas in there.
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Jun 17
"Social media censorship" is the dumbest tree for conservatives to bark up.

I'm saying this as, literally, A FORMER SOCIAL MEDIA "CENSOR" RESPONSIBLE FOR BANNING PEOPLE

Three reasons:

One, "censorship" implies regularity that isn't there.

For a truly systemic bias to exist against conservative media, content moderators would have to systemically moderate content, and this does not occur.

There are no laws on content moderation. There's no best practices. It varies by shop and it's haphazard as hell.
Two, conservatives are actually given privileges on social networks.

When they cannot earn them (because all they say is disinfo or hate speech and who wants to hear that all fuckin day) they buy them.

This is why so many blue-checks are assholes.

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Jun 17
Maybe this is a dumb question, but... what are the financial logistics like on those payments I wonder?

With the so-called L/DPR, it's shockingly easy to figure out (award checks are from GOSBANK, they come from VNESHTORGSERVIS money).

Wonder if it's another unsanctioned entity
this is the chain for the so-called L/DPR's pension system

interestingly, the end points are sanctioned, but not the middle

this is an example of the awards that the above chain of payments disburses

in the case of recipients in the so-called L/DPR, like the (dead) Sparta Battalion guy, it's coming from GOSBANK through the chain above

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Jun 16
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Jun 16
Ellsberg was a real one.

You can see the traces of his legacy today both in the whistleblower processes that Federal agencies have set up as well as in the activism that we all do.

I actually had the privilege of meeting Ellsberg once.

Here, I'll tell you about it -
I was looking pretty hard at joining the Army back in '012.

It didn't end up happening, which I have no bitterness about - I can actually say I tried in good faith to serve, that's not nothing.

I was introduced to Ellsberg in order to dissuade me.

It's a peculiarity of even very brief conversations with brilliant people, I find (we had lunch at a little neighborhood restaurant in Kensington) that what they say sticks with you long after what normal people say to you.

Ellsberg was like that.
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Jun 16
One thing I've learned from my Alabama friends that I don't think I've seen in disinfo work is forgiveness.

This is at first counter-intuitive: why would you want to forgive apologists for a genocidal regime? What, are you forgiving people who commit war crimes?

Well, no.

(🧵)
The thing is, not every adversary you have in anti-disinfo activism will be a disinfo purveyor.

Some will be rivals; some will be randos; some will be grifters on the same side of the war as you. Some will be simply small-minded and vicious little people. It's not black & white.
Complicating matters further, most of the problems that you tackle in activism are large and systemic (otherwise, why address them).

"Systemic" means that they inhere to some aspect of how things run and they keep happening even without bad intentions from people.
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