Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Raffi Khatchadourian Profile picture
Raffi Khatchadourian
@raffiwriter
Staff writer @newyorker | PGP: 9442 5B17 EC4B 368A 2FCB 8702 0D05 6F39 3D90 7157
Apr 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Nope. Nothing suspicious about these @twitter accounts that just popped up to weigh in on Xinjiang. Nothing at all. 1/2 2/2
Apr 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
File this one under "Minority Report."

In December 2020, @ipvideo made an interesting discovery about the Chinese use of surveillance technology. Alibaba, the "Amazon of China," had developed a system that could detect Uyghurs in videos and photos on its cloud services. /1 Image According to an API guide obtained by @ipvideo, the the "ethnic minority" detection service is part of Alibaba's "Cloud Shield," which the company has touted as "a pioneer in the field of Content Security." /2

ipvm.com/reports/alibab…
Nov 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
UCLA's Sebouh Aslanian has posted a plea for Armenian democracy on Facebook. It is being shared there. I am bringing it here, in this thread. /1

history.ucla.edu/faculty/sebouh… Aslanian (Part 1): "If one wants a scapegoat to blame, well there are earlier administrations that came before Pashinyan and all those oligarchs, big and small, whose existence has been parasitical for thirty years.” /2
Nov 10, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This part of the new Karabakh agreement may be the trickiest of them all. 1/ On its surface, this seems to recall the "Goble Plan," but without any changes to sovereign borders. So how could this work practically? /2

reliefweb.int/report/armenia…
Nov 9, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“Shushi is entirely outside of our control,” Vahram Poghosyan wrote on his Facebook page:

themoscowtimes.com/2020/11/09/nag… Some Armenians seem to think his page was hacked. He insists that it was not.

168.am/2020/11/09/140…
Oct 30, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Is there evidence that the Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh was announced on Twitter before it occurred? This thread will explore an oddity that seems to suggest: Yes. 1/ Let's start with khankendi.az. Khankendi is the Azerbaijani name for the capital of Karabakh. This site is now down. But it appears to have been set up as a kind of municipal Web page in waiting. It's slogan was "Khankendi: We'll be back." /2

web.archive.org/web/2014100720…
Apr 12, 2019 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD - For those of you following the Assange indictment, @emptywheel and @OrinKerr have been doing some great real-time response on CFAA and other issues, and @davidallengreen on the Sweden angle. /1 I think @emptywheel specifically wrote a thought-provoking piece sketching some of the potential dangers in this indictment /2
Jan 25, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: Just a quick observation on recent Mueller indictment. In March 2017, I was sitting beside Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, cruising Twitter, when up popped the following tweet from Roger Stone to @RVAwonk #backchannel 1/4 Assange said, "I think I know what Stone is talking about--I'm pretty sure--he says--there's some guy at WBAI. I did an interview with him. He said he knows Stone. He says he wanted to come to London to meet, but I didn't have time. You might want to talk to that guy." 2/4
Jul 31, 2018 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
I have deep admiration for @thenation. I got my start in magazine writing at that publication. So, last year, when it published about the DNC hack being an "inside job" I tried to hold my tongue, even though it was a fiasco on many levels. bit.ly/2ftuwns (thread) Then, last August, I read that after much criticism @thenation decided to review that article, and I was much relieved: wapo.st/2O0lI4e