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Dec 6, 2023 14 tweets 5 min read Read on X
1) Disney's CEO @RobertIger is a Biden campaign donor who is running a squeeze play on @elonmusk w/ Democratic attack dogs Media Matters & Center for Countering Digital Hate tinyurl.com/yckh8czb
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2) If you think @Disney's Bob Iger is above political reproach, take a look at his bona fides.

He donated $250K to Biden's campaign and began angling for an administration job even before Biden had been sworn into office. Image
3) This last summer, Iger swore to stay out of America's "culture wars" before hiring a Biden press secretary to handle .... "culture war" messaging issues. Image
4) NY Magazine reports that Iger remains a critical funder for Biden's reelection. Image
5) As for Media Matters, the NY Times reported in 2004 the Democratic Party operative David Brock created them with the help of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party think tank and lobby shop. Image
6) After Clinton lost to Trump in 2016, Brock retooled Media Matters to move into the digital space and attack “misinformation.” See Brock's "privileged and confidential" memo documentcloud.org/documents/3440…
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7) Media Matters has constantly attacked Musk since he bought Twitter and took away the party's censorship toy. After I released #TwitterFiles exposing Taylor Lorenz for coordinating with the old Twitter to censor @DrJBhattacharya, Media Matters leapt to downplay the documents. Image
8) The Center for Countering Digital Hate has a similar political background and was created by the conservative wing of the British Labour Party to attack the Left and Right. Image
9) The group is run by political operative Imran Ahmed who does not disclose his ties to British intelligence, nor who funds him. The chair of CCDH is Simon Clark, formerly with the Democratic Party's Center for American Progress. Image
10) Here's Simon Clark's bio at the Atlantic Council, which works with the Biden Administration on censoring Americans. Image
11) Imran Ahmed refused to disclose his donors, but I found that 75% of CCDH's money is cycled through a dark money group.

A board member is Hollywood agent Aleen Keshishian. Image
12. Here's Aleen's bio at USC. Note that one of her clients is actor Mark Ruffalo. I have been told that Imran Ahmed spends time in LA fundraising.

And guess which actor comes out to support him in attacks on @elonmusk? Image
13) Hi, @markruffalo. If you're in the audience. Image
14) You don't need to support Musk to be concerned that a political party--either Democrat or Republican--feels emboldened to attack corporations when the CEO doesn't donate to them or support their censorship activities. Read more at @DisInfoChron tinyurl.com/yckh8cz
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Oct 22
1) EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Working w/ @mtaibbi we report on @CCDHate documents showing the Labour Party's political front's objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter" thru "Advertising focus" meaning harass his advertisers.

See internal documents provided by a whistleblower. Image
2) Internal Center for Countering Digital Hate document shows their annual objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter"

This is their internal monthly planner. Their goal is to also trigger regulatory action, although they are a tax-exempt nonprofit. Image
3) CCDH held a private conference w/ a slew of liberal groups organizing against Musk including Biden White House, Congressman Adam Schiff's office, Biden/Harris State Department officials, Canadian MP Peter Julian & Media Matters for America Image
Read 5 tweets
Sep 11
1) I got a "missing context" fact check by @meta's Italian fact checker who said I shared a video that other people got wrong.

First, why are Italians involved in US free speech?

Second, what do other people's actions have to do with me?
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/disin…
2) A Kamala Harris video circulated with her calling free speech a "privilege." So I posted this on @Meta

“The Democrat who wants to run the country argues free speech is a ‘privilege.’”

See the "missing context"? Image
3) First, the fact check is in Italian.

QUESTION: Why are Italians involving themselves in US speech protected by the First Amendment? Image
Read 7 tweets
Aug 24
CHICKEN ESCABECHE

1) Get all your ingredients in place: chicken, oil, vinegar, wine, vegetables (carrots, peppers, onion, garlic, tomatoes), pepper corns, thyme.Image
2) Brown the chicken, especially the skin. (salt as you go) Image
3) Put the browned chicken in the pot. Image
Read 6 tweets
Aug 22
1) Twitter Files: Democrats & media claimed Twitter 1.0 was a “private company” that made its own decisions, despite Biden Administration pressure to censor.

But new emails show Twitter hired a lobby shop staffed w/ Biden loyalists & then coordinated w/ Biden State Dept. Image
2) “This is John Hughes from Albright Stonebridge Group, the commercial diplomacy firm founded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,” wrote Twitter’s lobbyist to a senior official at State.

Twitter was seeking “advice” and help. Image
3) Politico reported around this same time that 10 of Biden’s top foreign policy crowd came from Albright Stonebridge.

“The Blob” Image
Read 10 tweets
Aug 8
1) Emails show that social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci pressured @cochranecollab to put out a statement attacking their own review;

Twisted words of a Cochrane editor;

And misstates her academic bona fides.
pauldthacker.com/blog/
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2) Cochrane's Karla Soares-Weiser put out a statement attacking Cochrane's own mask review due to pressure from Zeynep Tufekci:

“Lisa, I have been back and forth with NYT about the mask review. CAN I GET YOUR VIEWS ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS?” Image
3) Several days later, Tufekci published a "masks work" essay in the NY Times and Karla Soares-Weiser rushed out a statement claiming problems with the mask review.

Soares-Weiser did this w/o consulting the scientists who wrote the mask review.
Read 11 tweets
Aug 2
1) Going through hundreds of emails, it's clear @zeynep bullied Cochrane into publishing a statement against their own review and twisted the words of Cochrane editor Michael Brown.

She pretends to be an academic, but is she?

unherd.com/2024/08/how-th…
2) After Cochrane published their 2023 mask review update, Bret Stephens wrote a NYT column ridiculing mask mandate activists--people like Zeynep Tufekci.

3 days later on Feb 24, Zeynep contacted Cochrane, but not the scientists. She went around them to the editors. Image
3) Zeynep introdued herself to Cochrane editor Michael Brown as an "academic" working on a review "in my own field."

Zeynep has published 0 in the academic literature this year, and one article in 2023--an opinion piece. As for that review, it has never appeared. Image
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