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#Russiagate: The cooperation of partisans, Twitter and major newspapers to report falsehoods of trolls and bots said to be Russian directed. Devin Nunes #TruthSocial #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

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#Russiagate: The cooperation of partisans, Twitter and major newspapers to report falsehoods of trolls and bots said to be Russian directed. Devin Nunes #TruthSocial
#FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/latest-twitter-files-show-media-dems-relied-on-single-source-alleging-russian-bot-activity-it-was-a-scam/ar-AA16Qd5q

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Devon Noon as the Guru CEO of Truth Social,

0:07.4

a medium platform that practices the First Amendment.

0:11.6

The reason this is suddenly important is because of new revelations from the so-called Twitter files,

0:17.9

not Taibi, releasing from in his sub-stack publication,

0:22.9

and in conversation online with his colleague Walter Kern, reveals an effort by operators who were

0:33.3

sympathetic to the Democratic candidates in 16 and 20, who were antithetical to the Republican

0:40.2

candidate in 16 and 20, and that Republican candidate supporters. Those operatives, according to

0:46.9

Matt Taibi, practice the kind of false information, sometimes known as Agit Prop, sometimes

0:54.0

known as propaganda, sometimes known as fake news, that not only linked those operations

1:02.0

to Twitter, the very dominating short form news reporting of that period, but also linked

1:11.0

Twitter to major news organizations, led by of course the New York Times and the Washington Post,

1:16.6

and all of the attended magazines and online sites. Devon, a very good evening to you. Thank

1:22.5

you for this. The Taibi revelations in the Twitter files with documents point to a chain of false

1:31.5

news reporting that was used to make this point. Donald Trump and his campaign are linked to the

1:39.6

Russian, and info information operations out of Moscow directed to undermine Hillary Clinton

1:49.1

or undermine Joe Biden, and to advance chaos in America. That's the linkage between the operators

1:58.4

who have a number of names, democracy usually shows up. Twitter and the major news organizations

2:05.7

that would then report on what the Russian bot so-called, the Russian disinformation teams,

2:12.5

were highlighting this week in order to so descend in America. Matt Taibi says,

2:17.6

whatever was being reported was based upon false information that wasn't challenged,

2:23.2

but wasn't checked, that wasn't sourced, and that all these years later, we've been living with

2:29.5

the understanding that the Russians were always intervening, always looking to stir up America,

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