First heard this on Rogan's recent podcast with Michael Shellenberger. Highly recommend both the article below and the podcast.

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In 2017, the billionaire founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, donated $750,000 to American Engagement Technologies (AET), an election campaigns consultancy founded by a former Obama administration official. Of that money, $100,000 went to another political consulting firm, "New Knowledge," to run a social media disinformation operation to help Alabama Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones defeat Republican Roy Moore in a December special election.

New Knowledge ran something called "Project Birmingham," which created fake Russian Twitter social media accounts that followed Moore, resulting in news stories that the Kremlin was backing Moore in the race. A 12-page New Knowledge memo dated Dec. 15, 2017 described the operation. "We orchestrated an elaborate 'false flag' operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet," the report says.

DiResta was intimately involved with both of the key organizations overseeing the Birmingham disinformation effort. She told the Washington Post that she helped AET get financial backing from Hoffman and took a seat on the board of AET. Then, in January 2018, two weeks after the New Knowledge memo, DiResta became the organization's Research Director.

The memo claimed that the work of New Knowledge had shifted enough votes for Jones to win the election, which had been decided by fewer than 22,000 voters. How? Through the use of disinformation to "radicalize Democrats, suppress unpersuadable Republicans ('hard Rs') and faction moderate Republicans by advocating for write-in candidates," said the memo.

New Knowledge also "planted the idea that a Russian botnet amplified the Moore campaign on social media. We then tied that botnet to the Moore campaign digital director, making it appear that he had purchased the accounts." Wrote the Washington Post, "During the campaign, journalists wrote stories about Twitter accounts that appeared to be Russian followers of Moore."

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https://public.substack.com/p/why-renee-diresta-leads-the-censorship

Shellenberger takes an axe to this lady. Completely dismantles her credibility.

Sure looks like election interference, Dems.

Progressives lying? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell ya.

Sounds like the plot to Inception but they used Twitter.

Still waiting on proof of all the allegations made against Moore which were to be proven after the election.

Anyone who falls for dim propaganda should lose their right to vote.

Their idiotic ideas and concepts of "progress" cannot withstand the truth. So they lie, censor, and cheat.

Yeah I heard that. DiResta's background and career path seems suspect.

BadMoonRisin said:

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Their idiotic ideas and concepts of "progress" cannot withstand the truth. So they lie, censor, and cheat.

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Victor Davis Hanson said this sort of political group never has popular support, but they somehow gain power anyway, historically speaking.

From the description of the Roy Moore deal, is sounds like there had to be some fraud in there somewhere.

What is the CIA connection other than one person involved in this did an undergraduate fellowship with the agency 20 years ago?

Seems like an awful lot of effort and expense when all they had to do was send one lousy tweet that made it look like you could vote on Twitter and avoid the whole polling place / ballot box hassle.

So this was a trial run for Russia, Russia, Russia that would later be used against Trump on a much larger scale.

This planted the seeds for Russian election interference.

Democrat deceptions know no bounds.

Definitely Not A Cop said:

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First heard this on Rogan's recent podcast with Michael Shellenberger. Highly recommend both the article below and the podcast.

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In 2017, the billionaire founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, donated $750,000 to American Engagement Technologies (AET), an election campaigns consultancy founded by a former Obama administration official. Of that money, $100,000 went to another political consulting firm, "New Knowledge," to run a social media disinformation operation to help Alabama Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones defeat Republican Roy Moore in a December special election.

New Knowledge ran something called "Project Birmingham," which created fake Russian Twitter social media accounts that followed Moore, resulting in news stories that the Kremlin was backing Moore in the race. A 12-page New Knowledge memo dated Dec. 15, 2017 described the operation. "We orchestrated an elaborate 'false flag' operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet," the report says.

DiResta was intimately involved with both of the key organizations overseeing the Birmingham disinformation effort. She told the Washington Post that she helped AET get financial backing from Hoffman and took a seat on the board of AET. Then, in January 2018, two weeks after the New Knowledge memo, DiResta became the organization's Research Director.

The memo claimed that the work of New Knowledge had shifted enough votes for Jones to win the election, which had been decided by fewer than 22,000 voters. How? Through the use of disinformation to "radicalize Democrats, suppress unpersuadable Republicans ('hard Rs') and faction moderate Republicans by advocating for write-in candidates," said the memo.

New Knowledge also "planted the idea that a Russian botnet amplified the Moore campaign on social media. We then tied that botnet to the Moore campaign digital director, making it appear that he had purchased the accounts." Wrote the Washington Post, "During the campaign, journalists wrote stories about Twitter accounts that appeared to be Russian followers of Moore."

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https://public.substack.com/p/why-renee-diresta-leads-the-censorship

Shellenberger takes an axe to this lady. Completely dismantles her credibility.

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But lets send a guy to jail for memes

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What is the CIA connection other than one person involved in this did an undergraduate fellowship with the agency 20 years ago?

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Oh, a lot.

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And it is striking how many former CIA Directors are involved in the censorship industry. Seven former CIA chiefs are on the board of The Atlantic Council, the organization that partnered with DiResta's Stanford Internet Observatory on the Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project. The Chief Strategy Officer and the Director of Federal Programs at Graphika, another DiResta partner organization, are former CIA officials.

Whatever DiResta's true history and continuing affiliations, she is without question one of the most, if not the most, influential leaders within the network of for-profit and nonprofit organizations and government agencies that comprise the Censorship-Industrial Complex. As research director of Stanford Internet

Observatory, DiResta was the key leader and spokesperson of both the 2021 "Virality Project," against covid vaccine "misinformation" and the 2020 "Election Integrity Project."

The question now is why. If we hope to defund and dismantle the Censorship Industrial Complex, we must understand what makes its leaders tick, why they rose to the top, and how they can be defeated. Who is Renee DiResta, and why is she, and not somebody else, the public-facing leader of the censorship industry and a trusted advisor to Democrats in Congress? Why is she doing it? And what will it take to defund the Stanford Internet Observatory, dismantle the censorship industry, and disempower DiResta?

To answer those questions, we first need to understand how DiResta got away with and was even rewarded for participating in one of the most outrageous and likely illegal, election disinformation campaigns in recent history.

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It's interesting that the CIA's go-to bogeyman continues to be "muh Russians" to this very day.

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New Knowledge also "planted the idea that a Russian botnet amplified the Moore campaign on social media. We then tied that botnet to the Moore campaign digital director, making it appear that he had purchased the accounts." Wrote the Washington Post, "During the campaign, journalists wrote stories about Twitter accounts that appeared to be Russian followers of Moore."

During the same period, 2017 - 2018, New Knowledge helped a former FBI agent named Clint Watts, and a U.S. government-funded think tank, Alliance for Securing Democracy, run yet another disinformation campaign, one which smeared ordinary Americans as Russian bots and then used that disinformation to generate dozens of news stories, including for CNN ("Russian bots are using #WalkAway to try to wound Dems in midterms") and the New York Times ("After Florida School Shooting, Russia's Bot Army Pounced").

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But there is no evidence that the Russians influenced the 2016 campaign, much less that they won it for Trump. Conservative voters did not consume much social media compared to news media in 2016. While 40 percent of Trump voters said, Fox was their primary news source, only 7 percent said Facebook.

"People promoting the idea that Russia swung the election will often cite that Russian Facebook posts reached about 126 million Americans," said a team of researchers who debunked DiResta's disinformation. "But that refers to anyone whose news feed ever included such a piece of content, regardless of whether they saw it, or whether it may have been drowned out in their minds by hundreds of other posts." Moreover, 56% of the Russian troll farm's pages appeared after the election while 25% were seen by no one.

DiResta has constantly sought to emphasize, creepily, that "fighting disinformation" is not a free speech issue but rather a national security one. In her 2018 Senate Testimony, DiResta said fighting disinformation "is not about arbitrating truth, nor is it a question of free speech." Rather, she claimed, it is "a cybersecurity issue, it is an ongoing national security issue, and it must be addressed through a collaboration between governments responsible for the safety of their citizens and private industry responsible for the integrity of their products and platforms"

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The CIA folks need a putative foreign actor so that they can legally, sort of anyway, engage with the 'national security threat' the Russian 'disinformation' poses.

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Seems like an awful lot of effort and expense when all they had to do was send one lousy tweet that made it look like you could vote on Twitter and avoid the whole polling place / ballot box hassle.

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I first heard this joke in the barber shop in the 1980s ... dems vote on Tuesday, and republicans on Wednesday or vice-versa.

You'd hear it from somebody every single election year to the point where it was lame af and you just ignored it.

Now in 2023 what was essentially a meme ... a tired ass joke for my entire life is considered a criminal offense and a serious attempt to interfere with a federal election.

We are all a bunch of ****tards and deserve every bit of what we get.