"You can stick to the path of observable reality" -> quote tweets Pizzagate Jack. Let's be clear: when it serves their interests & destroys the lives of their enemies, they lie. When the leopards are eating their faces and destroying their movement, they plead for the restoration of shared reality. RE:
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Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
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Remember when that app Rednote was a thing for a hot second? Anyone stay on it?
New from me! I interviewed Jimmy Wales about his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust — we talked topics ranging from how institutions can build trust today, to how to handle govt pressure, to Elon, Grokipedia, and the war on reliable sources. [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...](
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Lawfare Daily: Wikipedia, Ref-Working, and the Battle Over Reality
What happens when reliable sources become a battleground for power?
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In this companion piece I have to painstakingly explain how Matt Taibbi 1) gets our research backwards in an incomprehensible way 2) points to emails chains we weren’t on as evidence of things we did 3) imputes plans between tech & govt that happened 6mo before our election project existed, to us RE:
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James Ball (@jamesrball.com)
And here is a supplementary companion piece on my Substack in which I include Matt Taibbi's 1800+ word response to questions in full, in the intere...
He will make it up, just like he made up the lie that my team censored 22 million tweets. Except this time, he’ll be making up lies about people living outside of the US, pretending they are “linked to the CIA” —his usual bullshit trope, which has real consequences in some countries. He won’t care. RE:
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Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social)
Conspiracy theorist Mike Benz will start looking for proof of non-existent plots at USAID. He won't find any. What then? https://www.theatlantic.c...
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Another paranoid crank given a job that impacts lives. These cosplay sleuth Bongino wannabes — they’re all “content creators” — are going to wind up just like him: grasping to come up with evidence of bullshit conspiracies while real people suffer. [www.thehandbasket.co/p/conspiracy...](
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Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
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Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
Mike Benz, the pathological paranoiac who never did find the 22 million tweets Stanford supposedly censored, or explain how the CIA ran me as an as...
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Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
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Mike Benz, the pathological paranoiac who never did find the 22 million tweets Stanford supposedly censored, or explain how the CIA ran me as an asset, is now “investigating” USAID — the agency he boasts about being instrumental in killing — from the inside. [www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...](
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USAID Hired the Right-Wing Influencer Responsible for Its Decimation
Mike Benz was brought aboard to find evidence for his claims that the agency is secretly a spy operation.
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USAID Hired the Right-Wing Influencer Responsible for Its Decimation
Mike Benz was brought aboard to find evidence for his claims that the agency is secretly a spy operation.
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