Fortunately Twitter decided to rein in QAnon, one of many cults projecting both the main tenets of Trumpism but also serving as a channel for non-domestic malign actors to invest in GOP disinformation and disruption. Twitter’s crackdown comes too late to stop QAnon’s growth. While QAnon’s presence on Twitter will almost certainly shrink after the…
Category: Disinformation
so much Trumpian misinformation and disinformation, also HUD DragRace
So much disinformation, so little disambiguation time. Enough gaslight to save the fossil-fuel industry. x Fox News peddled misinformation about the coronavirus 253 times in five days: study https://t.co/UZU4MbpdHt— Salon (@Salon) July 18, 2020 x I’m an ER doc treating #COVID19 and I want you to know that every second of this @IngrahamAngle segment on…
Whose deepfake personas are these and how many more are out there?
The placing of 90 op-eds in a range of 40+ media outlets signals some real disinformation problems at work. One guess is that one of many (Saudi/UAE/Russia?) intelligence services have been doing this. This Daily Beast article shows how deep the information battle operates. http://www.thedailybeast.com/… Badani is part of a network of at least 19…
disinfo 101: Statues will be safer than you are from COVID19 because Trump needs to be re-elected
Because sociopaths are letting their freak-flag fly, here are some disinformation examples, each with problematic media frames. x Given the circumstances, if mom, in her duty to protect her child, temporarily lost her mind and opened a can on this person, would she be charged? Asking for a friend. — Grace (@GraceOCasey) June 23, 2020 x…
GOP continues to 'false-flag' Antifa as Trump still claims anarchists have taken over Seattle
If they had taken over the city, Boeing and Amazon would have already been nationalized/syndicalized, so Trump is spewing more disinformation. x Seattle Mayor says, about the anarchists takeover of her city, “it is a Summer of Loveâ€Â. These Liberal Dems don’t have a clue. The terrorists burn and pillage our cities, and they think it…
“domestic terrorists run by 'radical left Democrats' have taken over Seattle”, STOOP THEM!
Trump claims that domestic terrorists run by “radical left Democrats” have taken over Seattle. #CHAZ is not exactly Paris 1968 or even 1871. Imagine Occupy as a street fair. Trump is relying on his alternate reality to keep him appearing like IMPOTUS*. Darn it, the oxymorons have liberated Seattle and nationalized Microsoft and Boeing… not. x Domestic Terrorists…
“American Taliban” trends again because Ted Cruz thinks Columbus is a religious icon
We are in some strange space where to Ted Cruz, those people taking down monuments to genocidal explorers are like fundamentalist religious fanatics practicing iconoclasm. Ted doesn’t understand iconoclasm nor has he read kos’s book, but he went there on Twitter. x No, sweetie. THIS is the American Taliban. pic.twitter.com/VnoqlwiK5L— Adam Sank ðŸÂ³ï¸Ââ€Â🌈 (@AdamSank) June 11, 2020…
Ann Coulter bails on Trump… what?
Trump’s information warfare is nothing if but consistent, but he’s now pushed some of his opportunistic brood of RW pundits to the brink of disassociation because the 2020 outcome is in jeopardy. x Re Trump's crazed tweets suggesting @JoeNBC is complicit in murder, our book “Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth” has an entire…
The Donald, Death, and Disinformation
Recent attempts to distort COVID information in Florida are only a symptom of how GOP states will be undercounting or suppressing data. This is only part of the larger GOP project of vote suppression distorted by Trump’s ignorance of public policy. Even Rudy Giuliani has reemerged to flog Ukrainian disinformation about Biden. “The coronavirus pandemic…
The Daily Beast, “Twitter Loophole Allows Biden Rumors To Spread Like Wildfire”
So this photo has been circulating on Twitter: Scott Bixby at The Daily Beast highlights why I can’t go on Twitter: But the woman in the photo is definitely, without a doubt, not Reade. pic.twitter.com/sMbQZ78kQ3 — UsHadrons (@ushadrons) May 3, 2020 The image and its imitators have exploited Twitter’s notoriously lax approach to disinformation on the platform,…
The Face of Evil
It’s been clear since October 2016 that Vladimir Putin has been interfering in our elections, and that he’s planning to do it again. Even if he can’t get Trump re-selected, he can throw things into such confusion that we won’t trust the election results. His goal is destabilizing the West, and especially the United States….
‘The Trump jobs slump’ and other slogans we can use to drive Trump bonkers and win over voters
If there’s one thing Donald Trump is good at, it’s shouting the same outrageous lies over and over again. As a former reality show host whose most discernible skill was fake-firing people who weren’t actually employees, Trump understood the value of a catchphrase. “You’re fired!” may have been the “What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” of the…
Fox News, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter assist Trump in his effort to destroy the planet.
Get ready for an onslaught of climate disinformation as the 2020 Presidential campaign heats up between Trump and the eventual Democratic nominee. The same bad media actors that helped Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin steal our democracy in 2016 have done little to stem social media disinformation again in 2020 despite their protestations to the…
The week in Disinformation: $6 billion dollar wall versus $5 ladder
x Smugglers are now using camouflaged ladders to get over Trump's multi-billion-dollar wall. How much do they cost? $5.https://t.co/2AKj7tGow0 pic.twitter.com/Ovm7j0kETV — Mark Elliott (@markmobility) February 16, 2020 Smugglers in Juárez have engineered camouflage hook-and-ladders made of rebar that blend in so well with the border wall that it can be hard to detect, according to…
Trump's disinformation in local media this year may deploy Potemkin local news sites
The Trump campaign’s media strategy will more directly address “local news” that at some moment might trade on the same model of Sinclair Broadcasting. Brad Parscale described it as “fighting with the local papers”. Information spam and the Trump campaign could have much more in common this year, since the role of subcontractors in 2016…
There's a lead in New Hampshire, but the uncertainty comes with disinformation
Just stop talking about “staying in your lane” unless you're a American football player. “Stay in your lane: 1) what you say to someone who is below your league in terms of attractiveness and tries to hit on you. 2) what you say to someone who tries to talk about a sector they are not…
Chuck Todd confesses he was naive about GOP disinformation being spread on his program
A new Chuck Todd interview with Rolling Stone in advance of a special program on disinformation also demonstrates MSM complicity. Bothsideism writ large, and Jay Rosen takes Todd to task. Chuck Todd: “So look, whether we’d liked it or not, our platform has been used, or they’ve attempted to use our platform to essentially disseminate,…
Before the Disinformation Campaign Began, Roger Stone Said FBI was “extraordinarily courteous.”
Before the disinformation campaign began in earnest, before Faux News, Sean Hannity and Lindsey Graham — none of whom give a rat’s ass about children locked in cages or black men being shot by cops in the street by police playing a real life and death version of Grand Theft Auto — laced up their fake outrage…
