Talk About Tennis 2.0

Hey, at least they're wearing masks.

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

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.

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.

Twitter and AI combined, 2 things I loathe.

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.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 12:04 am 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.

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.

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

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:37 pm

Is Tulsi Gabbard there to greet her at the airport?

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:37 pm

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.

mmmm8 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 5:40 pm

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:37 pm

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.