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Aug 26 • 26 tweets • 12 min read

Five years ago, one of the most tyrannical smear and censorship campaigns in history was unleashed on a 17-year-old boy.🧵/1

After two nights of riots in Kenosha, WI, Kyle Rittenhouse volunteered to clean up the destruction and protect the immigrant Indian family business Car Source, whose car lots were burned the previous nights. He brought his lifeguard medical kit to provide first aid. /2

Jan 12 • 5 tweets • 3 min read

I asked J6 Committee's lead investigator, Tim Heaphy,

How was the J6 violence worse than the BLM riots if the J6 rioters didn't kill anyone?

Are you concerned with misinfo from WaPo, which falsely reported that they had?

He dodges & lies that Officer Sicknick died from J6 🧵

Although the microphone was taken from me, I asked about the contradiction between Heaphy’s trust in the Washington Post and his claim that Sicknick’s death was a result of Jan. 6—which was effectively debunked in the Post 4 years ago. /2

Nov 22, 2024 • 15 tweets • 6 min read

NEW - CNN Admits X Balanced, Not "Right-Wing"

But during the election, news outlets, including CNN, misled the public into believing Twitter/X was a “far-right" "echo chamber” "Nazi cocktail party".

/1🧵

Nov. 19, CNN reported Twitter/X's userbase “matches the overall electorate far better” in 2024 than when Musk bought it in 2022. But the data shows something even bigger: Twitter/X now has the most politically balanced user base of all major social media platforms. /2

Oct 24, 2024 • 27 tweets • 11 min read

Kamala Harris' call to ban Donald Trump from Twitter initiated a period of unprecedented internet censorship. 🧵/1

During her previous failed run for President, Harris promised her government "will hold you accountable" for "misinformation", threatening tech companies with consequences if they don't "police" their platforms for "hate" and "misinformation". /2

Sep 20, 2024 • 18 tweets • 9 min read

NEW: The American Psychological Association (APA) is mis/disinforming kids with its new kid's book, on mis/disinformation. 🧵/1

True or False? The Science of Perception, Misinformation, and Disinformation

The APA engaged in a real-life conspiracy with the CIA to bolster Bush-era torture. Now its new children's book seeks to “prebunk” young readers from investigating conspiracy theories. It also misinforms kids on other topics including racism, gender, and the COVID-19 pandemic. /2

Aug 24, 2024 • 15 tweets • 6 min read

NEW REPORT: DNC Disinformation Program lists factual reporting and satire as "disinformation" 🧵/1

In a video uploaded by Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg in 2023, Tim Durigan, the DNC's lead disinformation analyst, shares a PowerPoint with a sample intelligence report that provides a rare inside look at what the DNC sees as "disinformation".

(highlight added) /2

Aug 7, 2024 • 19 tweets • 8 min read

EXCLUSIVE: In a newly discovered Zoom recording, the Biden/Harris team reveals how they manipulated voters to think Biden's mental decline was "disinformation". 🧵/1

Biden/Harris digital director Rob Flaherty says the DNC created a program to detect, track, and censor what it deemed "misinformation" (like Biden's mental decline). He calls it "critical" and "one of the more important decisions" made by the party in recent years. /2

Aug 3, 2024 • 29 tweets • 10 min read

Why are these names redacted from the White House / Facebook meeting notes? The public must know who decides what content is censored online for there to be any accountability.

"Rob" = Rob Flaherty - Biden Digital Director, now Harris '24 Deputy Campaign Manager

Jul 19, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read

YouTube search:

"matt orfalea russia hacked the election"

Where am I?

🧵/1

Still going.../2

Jul 1, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

"Sharp as a tack"

https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1807856295707394374

Jun 9, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read

While shooting a satirical music video in support of the protesters, I was spat on and had my camera stolen at the protest yesterday.🧵

https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1792976157614416301

"I'm with you," I told them as I lip-synced the lyrics. Somebody snatched my camera and ran away. I pursued him, and eventually, he tossed it in the grass. Incredibly, the camera recorded the whole thing.

May 30, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read

Fmr. CIA Director Michael Hayden says he considered putting Edward Snowden on a kill list.

Fmr. FBI agent Mike Rogers (currently running for Senate): "I can help you with that."

"Oh there's cameras here...forgot about that..."

At the time (2013) Rogers was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee.

Trump endorsed Mike Rogers for Senate 2 months ago

May 17, 2024 • 25 tweets • 9 min read

Orf vs The Memory Hole 🧵

-A foreign country bombed the offices of a major U.S. press outlet

-Accused it, without evidence, of harboring terrorists

-And a significant portion of the US media spun the story to support the foreign country

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On May 15, 2021, the IDF gave the tenants of the al-Jalaa Building in Gaza—which included AP, other news agencies including Al-Jazeera, and residential homes—one hour to evacuate before bombing the building.

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Apr 27, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read

WOW: The Jewish student who claims she was "stabbed in the eye" previously testified to Congress to shame Yale for not giving her a security escort...🤔

"That's just the beginning" 🧵 1/5

https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1783877981170978850

"I haven't had time to cry...The week before that, I also didn't have time to cry...The week before that, I didn't have time to cry...Again, the Yale University administration did nothing. Again, I didn't have time to cry."

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Mar 7, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

UNHINGED: MSNBC smears the Supreme Court after it ruled to not remove Trump from the ballot.

"Nefarious"
"An Alarming Message"
"A Power Grab in Every Way"
"An Emergency for our Democracy"

And despite the court's *unanimous* decision, MSNBC says it was "not really" unanimous, framing it as a battle of the sexes: "four women" vs "the guys".

🧵 1/5

MSNBC: The Supreme Court is "nefarious", "unprepared", "wrong", "lacks seriousness", & "undermines democracy".

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Feb 5, 2024 • 23 tweets • 9 min read

The Dumbest Snopes "Fact-Check" Of All Time?

At least 5 Snopes “fact-checkers”, including its founder, pushed the disinfo that COVID-19 could not have originated from a lab.

🧵 /1

Astonishingly, Snopes' David Emery tried to claim in a thread w comedian Adam Carolla that, “Snopes didn’t say the lab leak theory couldn’t be true.” /2

Dec 7, 2023 • 20 tweets • 7 min read

WaPo repeatedly called Trump & Republicans "Rats" & "Vermin". Now they won't stop comparing Trump to Hitler for using the same dehumanizing language.

🧵/1

WaPo argues that “vermin” is a term used by “authoritarians” to “dehumanize” and “encourage followers to engage in violence”. That’s interesting, because, over the last several years, WaPo itself repeatedly called Trump and Republicans “rats” and “vermin”. /2

Aug 30, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

YouTube’s Misinformative Misinformation Policy🧵

/1 YouTube's "Harmful Misinformation" policy only applies to misinformation associated with stereotypical MAGA Republicans: “Pizzagate, QAnon, StopTheSteal” and “contradicting authoritative scientific consensus on the existence of and causes behind climate change.” /2

Aug 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

BREAKING: YouTube no longer has a “Covid-19” policy but an expanded policy to ban *any* “medical misinformation” that contradicts WHO or local health authorities (like CDC) regarding substances and prevention, treatment, or denial of health conditions.

🧵/1

BEFORE/AFTER TODAY:

As usual, this policy will be arbitrarily enforced, as it "may not cover all [CDC]/WHO guidance," but rather only guidance relating to an ever-changing hidden list of "specific health conditions and substances"🤔/2

Jun 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read