https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/1892379256493125980

Years after everyone with a brain knew there no WMDs in Iraq, John Podhoretz concluded that the real mistake was not indiscriminately killing every Muslim male in the country.

That project is even wilder than it sounds. According to documents obtained by @FDRLST, the multi-million dollar defense contract to study “large scale social deception” was run by a group called the 711th Human Performance Wing, an Air Force Research Laboratory project run out of an air force base in Dayton, Ohio.

What exactly did this “active social engineering” unit do with all that money? We don’t know, but we do know who managed and oversaw the social engineering and deception project: a DARPA scientist named Joshua Elliott who abandoned his academic field of theoretical particle physics to focus on global warming and climate change. According to the Federation for American Scientists, Elliott managed $600 million of DARPA projects during his 6-year tenure at the secretive military research agency.

Other entities that received funding via the same “active social engineering” contract in addition to Thomson Reuters include the Canadian version of GSA, Raytheon, the University of Southern California, government consultancies Mitre Corporation and SRI International, and HRL Laboratories, a joint venture of Boeing and General Motors. It wasn’t the Reuters newsroom that worked on this contract, but a special investigative corporate subsidiary called Thomson Reuters Special Services. While the contract purports to develop defenses against sophisticated phishing attacks from adversaries, research documents from the project show that the contractors developed their own massive social media infrastructure using bots and fake personas.

“Our team has demonstrated the creation and management of a multi-virtual-persona social media interaction system,” one document notes. “Our dialog management framework was integrated with a set of services that managed synthetic social media accounts.”

In simple terms, this DARPA contract involved the development and deployment of technology to create and manage fake social media accounts at scale.

This is far more insidious than a simple government payment to a news agency.

A Democrat House staffer referenced a tweet of mine during the deposition of Alex Stamos, one of Big Tech’s censorship chiefs, according to a transcript released today. The Democrat staffer clearly had a problem with the entirely accurate tweet, which quoted and screencapped IRS whistleblower testimony about how the FBI had authenticated Hunter’s laptop long before its campaign to censor coverage of it during the 2020 election.

Stamos’ organization has a history of censoring my Twitter account. During the 2020 election, his organization worked to censor a tweet of mine which quoted, screencapped, and linked to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision to require undated ballots to be processed as valid.
We caught them red-handed in 2020 when they censored us for reporting on election litigation. thefederalist.com/2020/11/04/twi…

A lot of people don’t know this, but in the 80’s if you were sick and had to stay home from school, you didn’t need medicine to get better. You just needed chicken noodle soup and the Price is Right, and boom you were good to go the next day.

https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1695474856534442034

It didn’t matter that the Soviets might nuke us at any minute or that you had a fever of 104 and could barely swallow. When Bob Barker revealed that lovely dinette set and Sally from Buffalo bid $1, you knew everything was going to be alright.

Zelenskyyyyyy loves freedom so much he’s indefinitely banned elections.

https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1674523669794635777

So much freedom. news.yahoo.com/zelensky-natio…

Imagine if Zuckerberg spent $400 million to privatize election offices and then used them to run get out the vote operations for Democrat candidates.

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1661101948542541828

Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey used Facebook and Twitter to censor factual reporting about Joe Biden’s corrupt crackhead son and his foreign influence-peddling escapades in order to swing a presidential election, @samstein. Imagine that.

BREAKING: Special prosecutor John Durham concluded that “neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.” MORE from Durham’s 306-page report, which
@FDRLST
has obtained: “FBI records prepared by [Peter] Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Anyone who actually believes this should have no problem with all of the footage being made available. And yet, that’s not what we’re seeing at all. We’re seeing grown men in the Senate and on TV having absolute meltdowns about the footage being made available. Why is that?

https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1633457963749847041

We’re seeing the J6 footage meltdowns for the exact same reason all the Russian collusion hoaxers had a meltdown about us being able to read entire Steele dossier, Peter Strzok’s texts, and the bogus and fabricated FISA warrants: The Narrative must be protected at all costs.

All we wanted was one set of rules. Rules that allowed us to say things like, "Men can't become women," or "universal mail-in balloting seems sketchy," or linking a New York Post story about the corrupt foreign business dealing's of a Democrat candidate's 50-year-old son. (1/x) While we were feverishly fighting that battle, scores of court eunuchs on the Right joined hands with the Left and screeched about how Twitter and Facebook and Google can ban and censor whoever they want because muh private company and also because Trump is icky. (2/x)

FiveThirtyEight's pollster ratings are hilariously bad and easy to game. Let's look at New York Times/Siena, one of their only A+ pollsters to see how bad they really are. 🧵 As you can see here, @FiveThirtyEight gives NY Times/Siena its best possible pollster rating of A+. That pollster must be super accurate, right? WRONG. In fact, NY Times/Siena has a horrific record in statewide elections.