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Latest ‘Twitter Files’ reveal execs warned Dems of false Russian bot claims — but didn’t tell public
NY Post ^ | 01/12/2023 | Jesse O'Neill

Posted on 01/12/2023 1:32:24 PM PST by BenLurkin

Twitter let Democrats spread a false narrative that “Russian bots” were making a Republican memo on FBI surveillance abuse trend in 2018...

The classified memo was slammed by prominent Democrats and the mainstream media...

[A]fter its release, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff wrote an open letter claiming the hashtag ReleaseTheMemo was being promoted by “Russian influence operations.”

Twitter officials were aghast, finding no evidence of Russian influence:

The claim prompted Sen. Richard Blumenthal to state: “We find it reprehensible that Russian agents have so eagerly manipulated innocent Americans.”

“Feinstein, Schiff, Blumenthal, and media members all pointed to the same source: the Hamilton 68 dashboard created by former FBI counterintelligence official Clint Watts, under the auspices of the Alliance for Securing Democracy,” wrote Taibbi, who noted the dashboard’s conclusions were “vague.”

Internally, Twitter executives were angry that no one had asked them if bots were responsible for the spread of the story...

“If ASD isn’t going to fact-check with us, we should feel free to correct the record on their work,” wrote then-Policy VP Carlos Monje on an internal memo...

Ex-Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth, who resigned after his role in censoring The Post’s 2020 exposé into Hunter Biden’s questionable overseas lobbying efforts was revealed, also failed to find a Russian connection to the efforts to spread the memo...

“I just reviewed the accounts that posted the first 50 tweets with #releasethememo,” Roth reportedly wrote. “None of them show any signs of affiliation to Russia.”

Nunes, who retired from Congress to work for Trump’s Truth Social platform, did issue a statement.

“Schiff and the Democrats falsely claimed Russians were behind the Release the Memo hashtag, all my investigative work… By spreading the Russia collusion hoax, they instigated one of the greatest outbreaks of mass delusion in U.S. history,”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: twitter; twitterfiles

1 posted on 01/12/2023 1:32:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 01/12/2023 1:37:35 PM PST by Beowulf9
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EVERYTHING coming out of Washington DC and US Deep-State media should be considered A LIE until there is overwhelming evidence otherwise.


3 posted on 01/12/2023 1:37:48 PM PST by PGR88
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5th generation of warfare /psyops is being perpetrated by Democrats.


4 posted on 01/12/2023 1:42:57 PM PST by HollyB
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Seems like a reasonable approach to these crazy times.


5 posted on 01/12/2023 1:44:02 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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“ The claim prompted Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to state: “We find it reprehensible that Russian agents have so eagerly manipulated innocent Americans.”

Should read ‘We find it reprehensible that Blumenthal and Democrats have so eagerly manipulated innocent Americans.’


6 posted on 01/12/2023 1:46:10 PM PST by HollyB
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“I just reviewed the accounts that posted the first 50 tweets with #releasethememo,” Roth reportedly wrote. “None of them show any signs of affiliation to Russia.”


How much did this stuff do to ruin any chance of tenable relations with the Russians? We know they were ticked off at Hillary’s campaign scapegoating them.


7 posted on 01/12/2023 2:32:23 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Dems are liars and connivers.


8 posted on 01/12/2023 2:54:41 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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