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@SohanDsouza
Oct 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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So, per this "Disinfo Lab" outfit, @pranshuverma_ was 'qoofed by @raqib_naik into incorrectly reporting in the WaPo that @HindutvaWatchIn was founded in April 2021. Sounds serious. Let's look into it, shall we? 🤨🔍
#OSINT
archive.ph/443vv
First of all, yes, the domain was last registered in 2019. The article already acknowledges this. 📰🧐
archive.ph/P1YSI
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There is, however, a difference between registering web properties for a project, and actually launching it. For a website, by actually publishing content. Fortunately, we have something called @Wayback that can help us find out when that happened. 💁📜
web.archive.org/web/2021041500…
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There are three snapshots between 2017 and 2018



A content template, and then no content at all. 💻🤷 web.archive.org/web/2017011003…
web.archive.org/web/2018010922…
web.archive.org/web/2018032503…


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Then nothing through 2019. Since the domain was last registered in 2019, the likely reason is that whoever previously held it let it lapse. The next capture's on 2020/APR/20 ( ).
Hmm, looks like a launch.
So, did HW start in April 2020, at least? 💩🤔 web.archive.org/web/2020042006…

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Not so fast. 🛑
See, the content on the site remains almost entirely the same through the next whole year, into 2021/APR/18 ( ).
Meaning this is a placeholder. A mock-up. 👷🚧
It cannot reasonably be labeled as having been "founded" at this time. web.archive.org/web/2021041805…

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But come 2021/APR/28 ( ), the content changes to date-labeled then-current news and data.
And is updated regularly thenceforth.
Confirming @pranshuverma_'s reporting of @HindutvaWatchIn's April 2021 actual founding date. 🧾✅ web.archive.org/web/2021042813…

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Oct 25, 2024
📽🧑‍💻🗳🕵️ THIS JUST HAPPENED!!!
A most curious phenomenon observed on #YouTube: numerous channels, mostly "reaction video", mostly by young minority men, pivoting, sometimes hard, from apolitical entertainment/sports/etc content to MAGA or other right-wing content. 🧵 Image
🧵 We've seen the Tenet Media scandal expose how influence operations can make use of target-located influencers to push a narrative.
What might slip under the radar is the "long tail" of content creators, who rely primarily on crowdfunding and "patronage". 🧵 Image
🧵 This can allow them to escape disclosure requirements that come with commercial sponsorship, or transaction trails that come with formal institutional funding. We don't have a window into "suggestions" by "superfans"/"members"/"patrons". 🧵 Image
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Aug 20, 2024
🆕🕵️🧑‍💻📑 @Meta published its 2024 Q2 adversarial threat report, including on the Vietnam-proxied UK-/EU-/US-/…-targeted influence operation I and @marcowenjones investigated as "The Qatar Plot", painting it even bigger than we estimated – and disappointing in what's left out. 🧵 Image
🧵 Meta's report generally aligns with what we discovered on the Facebook platform — the use of the Vietnamese proxy and currency, the geo-targeted areas, the cross-platform and IRL presence, and *much* of the messaging on the hostage, secularism, and war issues. That's good. 🧵
🧵 Meta agrees that the operation was run from Vietnam, and names the "LT Media" proxy we identified, but doesn't offer further information, or identification of the sponsors/masterminds. This is alarming, especially given the actual spend (more on that in a moment). 🧵 Image
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Aug 10, 2024
Excellent investigation by @mariannaspring, into the #Southport misinfo "patient zero" X account, and the Potemkin news site that gave the misinfo a veneer of citable legitimacy, used by the far Right to direct the vitriol and riots at UK Muslims.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
I should point out that said news site is still very much monetized on the ad exchanges.
You can visit it and see the ads to confirm, but here's the full ad scan:
@CheckMyAdsHQwell-known.dev/resources/ads_…
It's also still on X, even while removed from Facebook. Interestingly, it previously went by @fox3news on X, seemingly posing as Fox affiliate. It's unclear when the handle changed, but it was scrubbed around 2024/JAN/23.
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Nov 16, 2023
The fake restaurant pages on food delivery platforms, decked with slick pictures and flowery language, taking your order and relaying it to an actual area restaurant after skimming off their markup, are doing the exact same thing as are #dropshippers.

#enshittification
Actually, even worse, because you may be specifically avoiding ordering from an area restaurant with which you've had a bad experience, but will end up ordering from them again, because #dropdashers relayed your order – to what you thought was a newer/nicer place – over to them.
Delivery platforms could fix this, but it's lucrative for them to skim fees off orders placed by dropdashers, letting the latter take the responsibility for faking novelty. They don't even specify when the listing was posted.
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