I said I've got the receipts – and I do. Here they are in one thread, the full piece out at @PirateWires. 🧵

Background: my recent investigation exposed an extensive propaganda network that coordinates the dissemination of content sourced from foreign terror organizations across @Reddit.

The piece shows how widespread and deliberate the network is, with clear procedures and protocols for vetting new members, communicating online, posting, and coordinating engagement like mass upvoting or downvoting.

But the investigation also accomplished something else: through a series of unexpected developments following publication, it led me down a rabbit hole following the workings of a highly influential node within the Israel-Palestine information war.

This is an anonymous person who goes by @zei_squirrel, who’s amassed hundreds of thousands of followers across multiple platforms, and who directs them in targeted raids on strategically important discourse operations.

As I got further and further down the rabbit hole, I began to realize that — taken together — Zei’s tactics illustrate a detailed, comprehensive blueprint for how information warfare is fought today. /1 By any definition, Zei_Squirrel is a super-soldier in the Israel-Palestine information landscape.

But her significance goes beyond geopolitical propaganda (notwithstanding her frantic monomania regarding that conflict), and provides a rare glimpse into not just online propaganda tactics and methodologies, but how individual operators use a combination of disruption, radicalization, personal charm, online celebrity, resource coordination, and sheer manpower to achieve clear-cut strategic objectives on the digital battlefield.

Zei is known for posting extremist anti-Western, anti-Israel content at huge scale. With 273,000 followers on X, and nearly 6,000 subscribers to her Telegram channel, the operation she’s running is, on its face, clearly influential.

She’s as a kind of ligature connecting pro-Hamas efforts across major online platforms — Reddit, Wikipedia, Discord, X, and Substack — which makes her a kind of super-operator for the network. /2

1/ 🚨 How did George Soros, one of the most influential figures in global politics, infiltrate @Wikipedia?

I did a deep dive into his operatives, funding, and strategies reveals how the platform shifted from neutrality to radical social engineering. 🧵 2/ Soros has spent $22 billion promoting his vision of an “open society,” challenging borders, national identities, and traditional structures.

His influence extends into one of the most trusted information platforms: @Wikipedia.

Think plagiarism is bad? Well, check out Claudine Gay's predecessor as Harvard president: Larry Bacow.

This wild ride involves Harvard, insolvent Chinese real estate giant Evergrande, Xi Jinping, Anthony Fauci and Covid-19.

Buckle up. 🧵 The story begins in January 2020, before most realized a pandemic was emerging. "There were no formal governmental interactions between NIH/CDC and China [so] this leader of business in China reached out to Harvard asking for help."

The leader was Evergrande chairman Hui Ka Yan

Harvard has a deep history of anti-Semitism. Here are some cases:

1. For years, Jews were assigned an asterisk * next to their names on the university’s housing register to indicate 'a racial group for which the supply exceeds the House Masters’ demand.

thespectator.com/topic/harvard-… 2. When elite universities boycotted an anniversary ceremony for "thoroughly Nazified" Heidelberg U., Harvard broke the boycott & sent their Dean of Faculty, who reported back:

“Joseph Goebbels spoke briefly and gracefully and appropriately.”

thespectator.com/topic/harvard-…

Three years after Covid-19, we have no answers. So let me come out and say what my recent investigation is really about:

Was the pandemic a product of, or involved with, a US bioweapons intelligence effort gone very wrong?

Here are some highlights 🧵
unherd.com/2023/06/why-di… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1. USAID, America's foreign aid agency, has given at least $65 million to EcoHealth Alliance, the NGO that funneled taxpayer money to the Wuhan lab.

.@RobertKennedyJr is now clearly a contender to Biden. Yesterday, he did an attention-getting Twitter Space with @DavidSacks, @elonmusk, @balajis and others.

In response, @nytimes ran a same-day takedown to discredit Kennedy. Here are 5 ways they did it.

nytimes.com/2023/06/05/us/… 1. IMAGERY:

The image of @RobertKennedyJr isn't terrible though certainly there are better options from wires. But compare imagery in this piece to images from @nytimes article on Biden's health after he recently fell, published a day before the Kennedy piece. See a difference?

.@nytimes is backpedaling on lab leak. But how did they actually cover the pandemic's origin? Here's one indicative quote:

"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁. 𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀."

("Who's To Blame for the Pandemic?" Sept. 2020)

https://twitter.com/Megankstack/status/1640694215087628289

Same article:

If you own a cellphone, you caused the pandemic.
If you eat food, you caused the pandemic.
If you wear clothes, you caused the pandemic.

Who did NOT cause the pandemic?

@PeterDaszak, the guy who funded the Wuhan lab — one of only 2 sources quoted in the piece.

On Feb. 17, 2020 @nytimes & @washingtonpost ran nearly identical stories calling lab leak a “fringe” idea and “conspiracy theory”.

wsj.com/articles/covid… This was a month before a pandemic was declared; months before Trump said a word about lab leak; and weeks before the first scientific paper was released on the topic. /2

By @CJR's account, the press’s offenses are so voluminous, and so far outside the lanes of accepted journalistic practice, that they’re hard to keep track of.

🧵 from my piece in today's @TheSpectator /1

thespectator.com/topic/russiaga… There is former @newrepublic editor @FranklinFoer submitting drafts of his articles to FusionGPS.

In a burst of on-the-nose-ism, Foer named the file containing one of his stories "Manchuriancandidate.Foer.” /2

thespectator.com/topic/russiaga…