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"Fearless and adversarial" @TheIntercept is now complaining that Facebook is not enforcing its "pledge to combat foreign influence campaigns," because it hasn't censored French posts that "promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine" to Africans.

Can someone call Zuck? 🚨 Image
@theintercept Article is based entirely on "the tech watchdog group Reset."

Intercept oddly omits that "Reset" is funded by its billionaire spook-adjacent funder Pierre Omidyar. This isn't just a conflict of interest, but evidence that this article is part of an influence campaign. Image
@theintercept When we last heard from Omidyar-funded "Reset", they were informing us (via stenographers at the Associated Press), that Russia was manipulating social media response to the East Palestine train disaster.
@theintercept Previously, Omiday's generous coffers also funded that scam report that accused me and others, without a shred of evidence or even an example, of spreading "disinformation" about Syria.

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I spoke to Politico for this profile of Ben Cohen:
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New Twitter Files:

The FBI is helping Ukraine censor Twitter users, including journalists.

The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including Aaron Maté.
Article here: mate.substack.com/p/fbi-helps-uk…

In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the SBU, Ukraine’s main intelligence agency. The accounts, the FBI wrote, “are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation.” Image
In an attached memo, Ukraine's SBU provided a list of accounts that it alleged have been "used to disseminate disinformation and fake news to inaccurately reflect events in Ukraine."

It then asked Twitter "to block these Twitter accounts and provide us with" their "user data." ImageImage
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New: John Durham faulted the FBI for baselessly probing Trump-Russia collusion and relying on Clinton-funded material.

Yet Durham does not address the evidentiary holes and Clinton tie in Russiagate’s core allegation: that Russia hacked DNC emails and gave them to Wikileaks.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Material obtained by Durham’s team shows that the Clinton campaign and its contractor, the cyber-firm CrowdStrike, stonewalled the FBI’s requests for critical data about the alleged Russian hack.
Two key Clinton associates who were integral to the Russian hacking claim -- attorney Michael Sussmann and CrowdStrike CEO Shawn Henry -- also appear to have perjured themselves before Congress.

They testified that the FBI never sought onsite access to the DNC servers. But their… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Leaked "bleak" Pentagon assessment is "a marked departure from" the White House's "public statements about the vitality of Ukraine’s military", and will likely "embolden critics who feel the US and NATO should do more to push for a negotiated settlement." wapo.st/43fXb2N
"Beyond the leaked document, U.S. officials said the prospects for a modest outcome in the spring offensive also were reinforced in a classified assessment by the National Intelligence Council," which "found that Ukraine was unlikely to recapture as much territory as Kyiv did… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
It's clear to me that some US intelligence officials want these leaks to come out. The question is why: to promote negotiations? Or to attempt to fool Russia into thinking that US-Ukraine are backing down? 🤷
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