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How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge (The Hunter Narrative)
NBC ^ | 10 29 2020 | Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny

Posted on 10/29/2020 8:08:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden's son and business in China.

The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm" called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.

The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen's profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.

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Fake faces

Computer-generated faces have become a staple of large-scale disinformation operations in the run-up to the election. In December, Facebook took down a network of fake accounts using computer-created faces tied to The Epoch Times. Facebook removed over 600 accounts tied to the operation, which pushed pro-Trump messages and even served as moderators of some Facebook groups.

Last month, Facebook removed another batch of computer-generated profiles originating in China and the Philippines, some of which made anti-Trump posts.

Renee DiResta, a researcher at the Stanford Internet Observatory, said computer-created identities are becoming common for disinformation campaigns, in part because they are easy to create.

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To: yesthatjallen

And the damning phone call audio?


21 posted on 10/29/2020 9:17:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: a fool in paradise
And the damning phone call audio?

If the laptop, photos, emails, and audios are authentic and the FBI had them for a year the FBI had plenty of time to concoct cover stories and spread disinformation.

The FBI is in a sense fact checking themselves.

Are they going to incriminate themselves for their failure to investigate?

22 posted on 10/29/2020 9:33:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Bkmk


23 posted on 10/29/2020 9:37:15 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Comey himself promoted the false rumor about a pee pee video and tried to blackmail Donald Trump with the threat of releasing the rumor.


24 posted on 10/29/2020 9:38:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hitler only dreamed of having our mediots.


25 posted on 10/29/2020 9:38:53 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

It was last week or so when a fellow, (ex pat) living in Vietnam decamped for other pastures. He relayed the whole story on how this report was generated. It was reported here in FR. The report was made by a friend of this fellow in Vietnam as a background on exposure regarding a certain company. The outcome is detailed in this Typhoon report without the benefit of all the emails we have now. It was made using open source materials. Fascinating the web that is weaved by the Bidens.

NBS is all wrong on this of course.


26 posted on 10/29/2020 9:44:34 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: All

NBC sends out the new line of counterattack to their social media Trump-haters.


27 posted on 10/29/2020 9:45:36 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: yesthatjallen

But the one does not necessarily have anything to do with the other. In fact the “fake persona” ones could have been released in order to discredit the actual damning information found on Hunter’s computer.


28 posted on 10/29/2020 10:09:11 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

29 posted on 10/29/2020 11:24:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: a fool in paradise

#20. NBC - Nothing But Communist Crap!

These NBC writers and their sources are very similar to KHB “disinformatzia” writers of the 1980s. See the House Select Committee on Intelligence hearings on “Soviet Covert Forgeries” and “Soviet Covert Operations”, as well as the US Information Agency report to Congress entitled “Soviet Active Measures in the Era of Glasnost”, March 1988.

I wonder if these NBC pricks are using “Soviet/Russian” created “disinformation” and friendly leftist US businesses (if they are legit), to discredit the Biden laptop contents. But what about the recorded phone calls, stupids?


30 posted on 10/29/2020 11:28:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Torahman

I think details and materials from the hard drive are being masterfully released. I expect something huge sometime this weekend (maybe Friday to miss the weekend news dead space) will be released that proves beyond a shadow. Don’t give them more than a day or two before Election Day. Who knows, maybe Trump has turned the FBI, and they will release the findings of their investigations into the Bidens on Monday morning. Who knows, maybe we’re grasping at straws like they did during the impeachment and the Mueller investigation.


31 posted on 10/29/2020 11:45:06 PM PDT by ALASKA (It's not going to be pretty.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I wouldn’t believe the NBC story unless Dan Rather endorsed it. </sarc>


32 posted on 10/30/2020 2:52:34 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: yesthatjallen

33 posted on 10/30/2020 3:34:25 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Lying, Dying Fake News Liberal Media - NO Lie They Won’t Tell


34 posted on 10/30/2020 4:30:09 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: yesthatjallen

The reported dossier on Hunter was so viral I never heard of it.


35 posted on 10/30/2020 4:57:07 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Has NBC tried to get an interview with Joe Biden or Hunter Biden or Mr. Bobulinski to investigate this matter? No, no no! This is all anyone needs to know to arrive at the conclusion that this article by NBC is pure fiction. NBC must believe that we Americans have stupid tattooed on our foreheads.


36 posted on 10/30/2020 5:35:18 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

How much crow will NBC have to consume when this is over???


37 posted on 10/30/2020 6:43:18 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: yesthatjallen

The NBC corp working for Biden to create a diversion with a story that tries to bypass the actual Hunter Biden laptop and what is on it, making a dubious “disinformation campaign” having nothing to do the Hunter Biden’s laptop, as NBC’s “heart of the story” about him.

They want the sheeples’ minds diverted to a nothing burger while they are told that nothing burger is the real story.


38 posted on 10/30/2020 7:19:45 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Secret Agent Man
what a bunch of crap

"That's right, Wilbur..."
Mr

"It all came out of my other end."

39 posted on 10/30/2020 8:41:17 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The article claims little has been revealed despite promises from Bannon and Rudy.

Can we quantify what has been actually revealed? I have a friend on Fakebook i have to refute who is promoting this garbage.


40 posted on 10/30/2020 10:39:36 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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