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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!


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2023 Mar 17, 9:10pm   508 views  6 comments

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Clint Watts just won’t go away. The former FBI official who ran a disinformation campaign called “Hamilton 68” that generated hundreds of fake news articles falsely accusing dozens of Twitter users of being Russian bots is now claiming that a Russian “influence operation” is underway to — wait for it — weaken U.S. support for the war in Ukraine.

The New York Times is credulously citing the report by Watts, who now works for Microsoft, even though, thanks to his access to the Twitter Files, our friend Matt Taibbi exposed Watts’ Hamilton 68 scam to smear dozens of Twitter users as Russian bots. If you think “scam” is too harsh, consider that Twitter’s then-Head of Safety said about Watts’ project, “I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is” because it “falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots.”

The Times article by Julian Barnes, David Sanger, and Marc Santora fails to mention Watts’s disinformation campaign, quote a critic of his analysis, or even contain an alternative perspective. Watts’ report, and the article, appear to be pretexts to smear critics of US support for Ukraine.

These paragraphs appear to be aimed at laying the groundwork for Watts, Microsoft, NYT, Biden, et al. to slander anyone who criticizes the war as a potential Russian agent, even though Biden himself blamed higher energy costs on the war.

Watts and the authors of the NYT article also appear to be attempting to conflate in the minds of readers two different things: cyber attacks and influence operations. This is a trick that the advocates of government censorship have used in the past, as Michael noted in his congressional testimony last week.

As such, there are good reasons to distrust what Watts, Microsoft, and the NYT are claiming. They may be carrying out a disinformation campaign like the other disinformation campaigns we have uncovered.


https://public.substack.com/p/three-dots-the-russians-are-coming



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1   RWSGFY   2023 Mar 18, 8:27am  

cisTits says


Yo Ukey Nazi Fluffers of PatNet!

See how you are nothing but Useful Idiots for a totally bullshit propaganda machine?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot


So you CCCP Commie Pukin Indicted War Criminal Cum Gurglers of PatNet saying that Soviets didn't came to Ukrainian soil to kill, rape and pillage and it's just another illusion crated in your twitter-inflamed brains by some NYT something-something? I think you are being useless idiots and should log out of twitter and go for a walk in a forest.
2   Ceffer   2023 Mar 18, 10:14am  

This is clearly a war that will be won by trash talking.
3   RayAmerica   2023 Mar 18, 1:43pm  

The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming 1966.1080p.BluRay-Remux (free movie)
https://ok.ru/video/85860354615
4   clambo   2023 Mar 18, 3:04pm  

Looks like the Javelins and other cool stuff can fuck up a lot of Russian tanks.

Whatever benefits Putin hoped to gain from the invasion are now gone forever.
5   komputodo   2023 Mar 19, 9:19pm  

clambo says

Looks like the Javelins and other cool stuff can fuck up a lot of Russian tanks.

I should think that they can fuck up a lot of many kinds of tanks...Russian made or not...That's what they are designed for.
The FGM-148 Javelin, or Advanced Anti-Tank Weapon System-Medium, is an American-made portable man-portable anti-tank systems system in service since 1996, and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service. As long as you are willing to die as soon as you fire one...LOL
6   richwicks   2023 Mar 19, 9:23pm  

RWSGFY says


So you CCCP Commie Pukin


CCCP no longer exists. Be serious and stop promoting stupid propaganda. The USSR fell on December 26, 1991.

It's been 30 years, if you're going to push propaganda, update it. Nearly nobody under 35 even knows what the CCCP was. I barely remember it, I was 19 when it collapsed.

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