1. Twitter Files: Who Are the People Claiming RFK Jr. is “Disinformation”?
Let's look at what I found inside Twitter's internal documents.
2. First thing I found was Twitter officials discussing action they were taking on @RobertKennedyJr b/c of a report put out by the Center for Countering Digital Hate @CCDHate
CCDH's report was called "The Disinformation Dozen."
But was the report credible?
3. Facebook said @CCDHate report lacked credibility and posted a statement dismissing it.
4. But the report took off like a rocket, getting attention from the White House and Congress. Who is this group CCDH by the way?
5. It's run by a British political operative named Imran Ahmed, who wrote "New Serfdom" a book critical of free market ideology."
QUESTION 1: How did being a Labour Party political operative prepare Ahmed to rebrand himself as an expert in vaccines and disinformation?
6. QUESTION 2: Who runs Imran Ahmed and @CCDHate? Is it governments? Is it pharma interests?
I asked. Imran Ahmed won't respond.
7. Twitter officials discussed taking action based on the CCDH report. “COVID-19 misinfo enforcement team is planning on taking action on a handful of accounts surfaced by the CCDH report.”
8. Note that Imran Ahmed released his report to coincide with Biden's vaccine rollout and congressional hearings w/ Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.
QUESTION: Who is Ahmed working with?
9. Based on this discredited report, Twitter labeled the following tweets. (When Elon Musk took over Twitter, these labels were removed).
9. Twitter placed a “Vaccine Safety” label on this tweet where Kennedy sent a letter to Biden. What is wrong with sending the President a letter?
How does this violate safety? It's just odd.
10. Ahmed's CCDH ran a bumbling campaign the year prior ran the year prior, CCDH targeted 10 websites for allegedly posting racist narratives. One of the group's they targeted was @zerohedge
11. Fact checkers w/ NBC News “verify unit” fell for CCDH’s report,“Google has banned two far-right websites from its advertising platform after research revealed the tech giant was profiting from articles pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests.”
12. But Ahmed's report wasn't true. Ahmed took passages from the comments section and claimed they were articles. NBC then stealth edited their story.
This is NBC's "verify" fact check unit, mind you.
13. Another incident involves disinformation researcher Filippo Menczer at the U of Indiana. Back in 2014, a member of the Federal Communications Commission wrote a Washington Post essay calling his federally funded research “Orwellian”
14. Menczer's University shot back that his research had nothing to do with “attempting to track political misinformation in a way that would somehow limit free speech.”
15. Menczer later told the Columbia Journalism Review that criticism of him had nothing to do with the reality of his research—it merely confirmed the problem of misinformation.
(Most disinformation researcher claim any criticism is "disinformation")
16. Fast forward several years and what is Menczer doing? SURPRISE!!!!
Defining types of speech as misinformation, tracking people’s social media, and creating an online database.
17. In December 2021, Menczer emailed a misinformation group “Our CoVaxx dashboard quoted in the article, ranks CHD as the top source of COVID vaccine disinformation,” Menczer wrote. The abbreviation “CHD” stands for Children’s Health Defense, the group Kennedy runs.
18. Menczer also falsely claimed that Kennedy has misrepresented his research. Kennedy hadn't.
QUESTION: Why do misinformation experts put out misinformation so often?
QUESTION 2: Who is paying for all this research?
19. Menczer’s email ended up at Twitter after he posted it to the Google Group “Combatting Fake News: The Science of Misinformation.” This group apparently claims that research to censor some news as fake actually strengthens the First Amendment.
20. When explaining his research, Menczer sometimes makes it appear abstract and nebulous. When he won a recent $1.2 million Department of Defense grant to study misinformation, his university put out a statement.
QUESTION: What does this mean?
21. At other times, Menczer is more direct in highlighting that his research can help government officials regulate speech—something he denied back in 2014. He wrote this essay recently after criticising @elonmusk
I think this is what his research is really about.
1) Whistleblower says "New Knowledge" cybersecurity firm run by Jonathan Morgan & Renee DiResta trafficked in election disinformation.
Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) New Knowledge filled w/ former NSA agents who explained the game to Betsy Depuis while out for drinks:
NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.
3) Betsy Depuis was tasked w/ improving the Hamilton 68 dashboard, a job paid for by the Center for American Progress. @mtaibbi later exposed the dashboard spread disinformation, and the Washington Post ran multiple corrections.
1) EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak testifies before Congress tomorrow.
In yesterday's exclusive, I created a timeline of Daszak's ever-changing story about his dangerous virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. pauldthacker.com/blog/
2) TIMELINE
JUNE 2016: Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance notifies NIH that they plan to make chimeric MERS and SARS viruses in year 3 of a bat coronavirus grant.
3) 2017: NIH lifts pause on research involving chimeric MERS and SARS viruses.
1) Medical authorities ignore past screwups, blunder onward while feigning expertise, and hope the public has the mental capacity of goldfish who forget their entire world every 15 minutes.
2) @tracybeanz, "You may want to sit this one out."
@jikkyleaks, "Misinformation you say?"
3) What makes the @thelancet ballyhooed studies on misinformation all the more comical is who authored them: CDC scientists and academic Claire Wardle.
1) WHO's leading vaccine official testified in court that she advised against #COVID passports & was ignored.
COVID vaccines didn't stop transmission; passports gave a false sense of security.
2) Dr. Hanna Nohynek is chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and serves as the WHO’s chair of Strategic Group of Experts on immunization.
3) Dr. Nohynek testified that Finnish Institute for Health knew by the summer of 2021 that the COVID-19 vaccines did not stop virus transmission. The EU implemented passports around this time.
2) @FullFact even tried to bolster confidence in Pfizer’s #COVID vaccine by pointing out that—while Pfizer paid an unprecedented $2.3 billion fine for healthcare fraud—everyone needs to calm the fuck down, none of Pfizer’s fraud involved a vaccine.
3) The regulator found that Pfizer began spreading vaccine misinformation in 2020 to promote their COVID vaccine, meaning Pfizer was misleading the public about their vaccine throughout the pandemic.
1) Allison Neitzel served as physician-expert on misinformation stories at NBC, Mother Jones, MedPage Today, & others, but was forced to apologise last week for spreading misinformation and defaming physicians.
2) In one incident, @AliNeitzelMD attacked physician @TracyBethHoeg as "Hoeg hag."
HOEG: “The fact [Neitzel] has not nearly completed her training but has appointed herself as an expert physician in pointing out misinformation strikes me as both odd and ironic.”
3) Here's a posting of Allison Neitzel's "Sorry if you were hurt" apology, where she explained spreading misinformation about multiple physicians.