{"id":1829586,"date":"2023-01-31T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829586"},"modified":"2023-01-31T06:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T11:56:19","slug":"the-astounding-saga-of-hamilton-68-illustrates-scope-of-americas-institutional-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-astounding-saga-of-hamilton-68-illustrates-scope-of-americas-institutional-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Astounding Saga Of Hamilton 68 Illustrates Scope Of America\u2019s Institutional Rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-astounding-saga-of-hamilton-68-illustrates-scope-of-americas-institutional-rot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A shoddy propaganda campaign spearheaded by an ex FBI agent was a disaster for the media. Twitter internal understood that the operation was partisan hackery, but did not speak out. This operation was supported by influential ex officials of the government. And it\u2019s only thanks to Matt Taibbi\u2019s most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/taibbi\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton?r=2xssg&#038;utm_medium=ios&#038;utm_campaign=post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contribution<\/a> To \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d That we now have a complete picture of the institutional corruption that occurred in Hamilton 68 is a shocking revelation. <\/p>\n<p>American intelligence operatives have a history in which they used credulous reporters for political purposes to spread disinformation. (Remember when President Nixon\u2019s team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1973\/09\/25\/archives\/hunt-says-he-fabricated-cables-on-diem-to-link-kennedy-to-killing.html\">Forged<\/a> Cables about John F. Kennedy, and tried to get them into Life? Or <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/media_criticism\/how-the-los-angeles-times-helped-destroy-jean-seberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fate<\/a> Jean Seberg with her baby, thanks in large part to COINTELPRO (and the Los Angeles Times) We\u2019ve learned more and more about this in the years after the Cold War, yet elite media outlets eagerly swallow tactical disinformation when it confirms their priors. <\/p>\n<p>The result? What is the result? <\/p>\n<p> Neue Information <\/p>\n<p>Given access to Twitter\u2019s internal records by new CEO Elon Musk, Taibbi pulled the company\u2019s communications surrounding Hamilton 68 and reported his findings last Friday. The project claimed to be a \u201cdashboard\u201d This Twitter account tracked Russian disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>As Taibbi wrote, \u201cThe secret ingredient in Hamilton 68\u2019s analytic method was a list of 644 accounts supposedly linked \u2018to Russian influence activities online.\u2019 It was hidden from the public, but Twitter was in a unique position to recreate Hamilton\u2019s sample by analyzing its Application Program Interface (API) requests, which is how they first \u2018reverse-engineered\u2019 Hamilton\u2019s list in late 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The files unearthed by Taibbi show Twitter\u2019s internal audit of the Hamilton 68 list found it to be, in the words of former executive Yoel Roth, \u201cbullish-t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese accounts are neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots,\u201d Another employee spoke out. The speech that Hamilton 68 claimed was foreign disinformation was in fact legitimate speech by anti-establishment American Twitterers. Here\u2019s Roth again: \u201cVirtually any conclusion drawn from [the dashboard] will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdashboard\u201d confirmed elites\u2019 bizarre anti-Trump Russia-collusion narrative by secretly classifying as Russian activity political speech from Americans with whom they disagreed. <\/p>\n<p>Hamilton 68: Who was the man behind it? Clint Watts, a former FBI Special Agent, created the project. The Alliance for Securing Democracy supported it. That means a host of powerful former government officials with long histories in and around intelligence agencies promoted the shoddy research for years or, at the very least, were complicit in Hamilton 68\u2019s work by lending their support. Watts is a contributor for MSNBC and NBC News. (Bill Kristol is a member of the Alliance\u2019s advisory board.)<\/p>\n<p> Institutional Corruption <\/p>\n<p>It is worse on three fronts: Big Tech, academia, and media. <\/p>\n<p>Taibbi points out that elite American universities such as Harvard and Princeton promoted the suspect research uncritically. The files also show that Twitter declined to call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Matt Taibbi\u2019s most recent contribution to &#8216;The Twitter Files,&#8217; we know the full extent of institutional corruption in the mind-boggling case of Hamilton 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":1829589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7378,17063,11172,15212,17064,16350,3707,17065],"class_list":["post-1829586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-americas","tag-astounding","tag-hamilton","tag-illustrates","tag-institutional","tag-rot","tag-saga","tag-scope"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}