JUST IN: The MIT Technology Review reports that the Deep State is highly upset after the State Department's Darren Beattie sought internal communications between U.S. and European government censors, disinformation “journalists”, and other deep state creeps.
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Creeps caught in the crosshairs: Anne Applebaum, former US cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and Bill Kristol
Search keywords include Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and hilariously “Pepe the Frog” and “incel.”
The goal is a Twitter-files style document release to rebuild trust and increase transparency.
Critics complain it's a “witch hunt.”
As reported last month, the Global Engagement Center i no longer.
Other disreputable notables in the crosshairs include Bellingcat, Daniel Fried, Renee DiResta, and Nina Jankowicz.
Darren Beattie is targeting the censorship industrial complex while at State
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The usual suspects are not happy about things.
Revolver's favorite “disinformation” “reporter” Brandy Zadrozny is also on the list.
Shills at some NGO cutout calling itself the “Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press” are mad.
A good list.
Full list here.
More.
And more.
“Pepe the Frog” makes an appearance
Even more terms.
The last page.
"Multiple sources say State Department employees raised alarms internally about the records requests."
Revolver’s favorite theater girl Nina Jankowicz is particularly perturbed.
Very good.
Lol.
All of this leaked reporting begs the question: What do the career bureaucrats fear from transparency and accountability?
"In 2022, Jankowicz was appointed to lead the Disinformation Governance Board, an intra-agency best practices and coordination entity at the Department of Homeland Security; she resigned the position after a sustained disinformation campaign caused the Biden Administration to abandon the project."
"When Nina Jankowicz’s first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker last year, she expected attention but not an avalanche of abuse and harassment, predominantly from men, online.
All women in politics, journalism and academia now face untold levels of harassment and abuse in online spaces. Together with the world’s leading extremism researchers, Jankowicz wrote one of the definitive reports on this troubling phenomenon. Drawing on rigorous research into the treatment of Kamala Harris – the first woman vice-president – and other political and public figures, Nina also uses her own experiences to provide a step-by-step plan for dealing with harassment, abuse, doxing and disinformation in online spaces.
The result is a must-read for researchers, journalists and all women with a profile in the online space."
This is one of the writers who defined “scalping” as "a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans” for the @AP: @ByMoriah
(AP later stealth edited the story to tweak the definition somewhat - )
@AP @ByMoriah This is the other writer who defined “scalping” as "a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans” before @AP stealth-edited the farcical definition: @cbinkley