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This is an important concept I feel like more activists should get.
It's real simple:
Whatever your work is doing, which is often very important... you get a massive, massive force multiplier from it if you just keep data.
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It's real simple:
Whatever your work is doing, which is often very important... you get a massive, massive force multiplier from it if you just keep data.
(🧵)
Here's one example:
The team I joined to hunt Nazis for Facebook, initially, wasn't even counting how many they sent, or how many got banned.
When I counted, I learned how bad Facebook was at what they were doing.
That was the basis of the SEC whistleblower complaint I filed.
The team I joined to hunt Nazis for Facebook, initially, wasn't even counting how many they sent, or how many got banned.
When I counted, I learned how bad Facebook was at what they were doing.
That was the basis of the SEC whistleblower complaint I filed.
Another example:
People already knew that Belarusian secret police were bad news - this is why #BYPOL basically doxxed them en masse.
All this information was out there but without much "color" - without a story tying it together.
People already knew that Belarusian secret police were bad news - this is why #BYPOL basically doxxed them en masse.
All this information was out there but without much "color" - without a story tying it together.
This is, at best a guess on my part - I don't know how @USTreasury actually decided to pull the trigger - but actual legal documents from within the Belarusian regime, along with a sense of how they fit into a typical arrest narrative, seem to have helped.
https://twitter.com/JoohnChoe/status/1675933847937220609?s=20
I've mentioned Dmitri Mehlhorn; he was the one who actually told me this way back when in '22. This is him.
It's very, very true for #NAFOworks and #NAFO.
It's very, very true for #NAFOworks and #NAFO.
https://twitter.com/JoohnChoe/status/1678921251484741633?s=20
Make no mistake, NAFO is not the first anti-disinfo movement that's ever happened; Lithuania's elves and #jagarhar both predate it.
What's the difference with NAFO?
There's a bunch of them, but the big one that people aren't really seeing as such, is the fact that we keep data.
What's the difference with NAFO?
There's a bunch of them, but the big one that people aren't really seeing as such, is the fact that we keep data.
By data I mean more than just "how many fellas are in NAFO" (this is always, at best, a guess, I've noticed, because there isn't a precise track).
Data like this - on NAFO's efficacy - was what got a lot of people interested in NAFO back in fall of '22, myself included.
Data like this - on NAFO's efficacy - was what got a lot of people interested in NAFO back in fall of '22, myself included.
Data creates leverage, not power - no one is going to do what you say because you have, like, a spreadsheet.
But they're going to take what you have to say a lot more seriously - and they'll take NAFO more seriously - if you have data.
But they're going to take what you have to say a lot more seriously - and they'll take NAFO more seriously - if you have data.
Real talk, I'm actually happy if other parts of NAFO - like the part that makes shark and cubenik jokes - takes up the spotlight for a minute.
It's "tanking" negative attention that might otherwise go towards the massive leverage that #NAFOWorks lists are quietly building.
It's "tanking" negative attention that might otherwise go towards the massive leverage that #NAFOWorks lists are quietly building.
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