Hello Dante? What Level Is This?

[skatingfan]

Hey, at least they're wearing masks.

[ponchi101]

Every time some organization uses the word "Patriot" in their name...
Or "Democratic" (see, North Korea, Republic of Congo, East Germany).

[ti-amie]

Below is via @threadreaderapp

12/ Another lesson:

Some blue check #OSINT-branded accounts repeated the Pentagon explosion without doing OSINT.

Folks, there are webcams pointed at the DC skyline.

And the buildings pictured don't exist.

Their tweets added credibility & further sped the lie.

13/ Exercise: ask yourself how disinformation like this plays out in the context of a real high stakes moment.

Like, say, a report of an attack on the president with realistic pictures / video /audio...a few hours before polls close on Election Day 2024.

We are unprepared.
13/ Generative AI basically brought the wind machine to Twitter's hurricane of disinformation.

Verification is only going to get harder.

[ponchi101]

Why is there the assumption that this was done for political gains? Look at the market drops; somebody, and most likely they did, must have made a killing during that drop.

[Owendonovan]

Twitter and AI combined, 2 things I loathe.

[ti-amie]

[ponchi101]

I know nothing about this woman. I do not know her material or output.
But banning a book, any book, is Orwellian.
That a very slippery and very steep slope.

[Owendonovan]

I know nothing about this woman. I do not know her material or output.
But banning a book, any book, is Orwellian.
That a very slippery and very steep slope.

She is the young woman who authored and then read this stirring poem at Joe Biden inauguration. It was beautiful, unlike these Christofacists. I wish these book banning ignoramuses were the people who followed Jim Jones.

[mmmm8]

The fact that a single person's request, misnaming the work, can get a published work of historical importance banned from a public institution is absolutely insane.

[dryrunguy]

She used the word "indoctrinate"? Seriously? And the irony and cognitive dissonance of that word choice would be completely lost on her.

[ti-amie]

[Owendonovan]

Is Tulsi Gabbard there to greet her at the airport?

[ti-amie]

[mmmm8]

They held a press conference with her and one of the "panelists" was Maria Butina (the convicted spy). Reade said she will be asking for Russian citizenship.

I don't think her initial allegations against President Biden were driven by Russia. I think she is a (likely unwell) person who ran out of usefullness to the far right in the US and has now struck a deal to be used for domestic propaganda/distraction in Russia.

[ti-amie]

They held a press conference with her and one of the "panelists" was Maria Butina (the convicted spy). Reade said she will be asking for Russian citizenship.

I don't think her initial allegations against President Biden were driven by Russia. I think she is a (likely unwell) person who ran out of usefullness to the far right in the US and has now struck a deal to be used for domestic propaganda/distraction in Russia.

That actually makes sense. The grift in the US was over so she's chosen new paymasters.