Posted on 12/20/2022 5:15:09 PM PST by bitt
A US government-funded nonprofit known as “the mountain retreat for the liberal elite” sponsored a “tabletop exercise” intended to influence coverage of a leak of documents related to Hunter Biden, the latest installment of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” reveals.
In a series of tweets Monday, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger posted confidential documents from the Aspen Institute’s September 2020 event, which he said was attended by Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety, Facebook’s head of security policy and top national security reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The exercise by the “Aspen Digital Hack-and-Dump Working Group” involved an 11-day scenario in October 2020 that began with the imaginary release of falsified records related to Hunter Biden’s controversial employment by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which paid him as much as $1 million a year to serve on its board when his father was vice president.
“The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it,” Shellenberger wrote.
But the drill was put into practical use weeks later, when The Post broke the news about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — which was either ignored or downplayed by most mainstream news outlets and suppressed by both Twitter and Facebook.
While they derided the reporting as potential disinformation well after the story broke, some two years later major news organizations including the Times and The Washington Post chose to authenticate key emails from the laptop and both Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have since admitted it was wrong to crack down on The Post’s reporting.
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“The institute — which reported more than $151 million in revenue in 2020 and had more than $352 million in net assets, according to its latest IRS filing — receives “substantial funding” from groups such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its top donors include Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, a frequent backer of Democratic candidates, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ parents, Jacklyn and Miguel Bezos.
Its list of contributors also features former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who served under then-President Bill Clinton, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, US Ambassador to Norway Marc Nathason, former Biden administration coronavirus czar Jeffrey Zients and ex-US Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)”
Prince Harry is one of their misinformation commissioners, or some such nonsense. In other words, they are a bunch of asshats.
None of this group of conspirators give a damn because they accomplished what they intended — getting Brandon elected. Now they have two more years for Americans to forget this ever happened before the next election. Many of the electorate already have no idea who Hunter Biden is.
Don’t forget the CEO, Wawa Isaacson.
Congress should really ask where the script for this exercise came from and trace it back.
Wargaming to keep taxpayers in the dark, on the taxpayer dime.
A nice list to have when “The Troubles” start.
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