{"id":1830912,"date":"2023-02-01T03:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830912"},"modified":"2023-02-01T03:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:04:45","slug":"twitter-media-and-democrats-are-all-guilty-in-the-hamilton-68-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-media-and-democrats-are-all-guilty-in-the-hamilton-68-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, Media, And Democrats Are All Guilty In The Hamilton 68 Scandal"},"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%2Ftwitter-media-and-democrats-are-all-guilty-in-the-hamilton-68-scandal%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=1830912&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>The most recent chapter of \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d Friday&#8217;s break was marked by the release internal communications. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1619029772977455105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Takedown<\/a> Hamilton 68 falsely claimed it was exposing Russian disinformation via social media. The details revealed prove to be equally destructive for the corrupt media and dishonest Democrats as well as Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Independent journalist Matt Taibbi\u2019s most recent expos\u00e9 provided more details of the internal angst at Twitter caused by Hamilton 68, which Taibbi described as \u201ca computerized \u2018dashboard\u2019 designed to be used by reporters and academics to measure \u2018Russian disinformation.\u2019\u201d Taibbi explained that Taibbi was a former FBI counterintelligence agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/news\/2017\/08\/fox-fellow-clint-watts-colleagues-launch-hamilton-68\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clint Watts<\/a> The dashboard was created by the Alliance for Securing Democracy think tank. It was used then as \u201cthe source of hundreds if not thousands of mainstream print and TV news stories in the Trump years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually every major news organization in America is implicated, including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC,\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Mother Jones<\/em>\u00a0alone did at least 14 stories pegged to the group\u2019s \u2018research,\u2019\u201d Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stressed<\/a>, adding, \u201cEven fact-checking sites like\u00a0<em>Politifact\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Snopes\u00a0<\/em>cited Hamilton 68 as a source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there was a problem \u2014 a huge problem: \u201cThe Twitter Files expose Hamilton 68 as a sham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Exposed <\/p>\n<p>In internal communications, it was revealed that Twitter reverse-engineered Hamilton 68&#8217;s alleged tracking of online Russian influence. The methodology relied upon a list containing 644 accounts. The Twitter executives ordered a forensic analysis to those accounts. They found that only 36 of them were registered in Russia. Many of these accounts were also connected with Russia Today, which was the government. \u201cnews\u201d service.<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi said that \u201cthe accounts Hamilton 68 claimed were linked to \u2018Russian influence activities online\u2019 were not only overwhelmingly English-language (86%), but mostly \u2018legitimate people,\u2019 largely in the U.S., Canada, and Britain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twitter insiders and email exchanges captured the problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It is possible to say<\/a>Among other things: \u201cNo evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of Russian information ops.\u201d \u201cHardly evidence of a massive influence campaign.\u201d \u201cThese accounts are neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yoel Roth, a Twitter executive, synthesized the following: \u201cI think we need to just call this out on the bullsh-t it is.\u201d\u00a0But while Twitter brushed reporters and politicians off Hamilton 68\u2019s Russian-bots storyline, the tech giant\u2019s concern about \u201cplaying the long game\u201d The project was kept from being called BS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/31\/the-astounding-saga-of-hamilton-68-illustrates-scope-of-americas-institutional-rot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Astounding Saga Of Hamilton 68 Illustrates Scope Of America\u2019s Institutional Rot<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a terrible Friday thread, and subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Article<\/a>, however, Taibbi did. It was so devastating that Hamilton 68 had to respond with a reply titled &#8220;A \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/securingdemocracy.gmfus.org\/fact-sheet-hamilton-68-dashboard-2017-2018\/\">FACT SHEET: Hamilton 68 Dashboard (2017-2018)<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Taibbi had basically begged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/news\/2017\/08\/fox-fellow-clint-watts-colleagues-launch-hamilton-68\/\">Watts<\/a> and all those who are connected to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, (ASD), to meet with him before his funeral \u201cTwitter Files\u201d Reporting went live. He was neither amused nor persuaded. He responded with his own response. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/responding-to-hamilton-68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It is possible to say<\/a>: \u201cAfter refusing to answer questions pre-publication, Hamilton 68 and Clint Watts printed a response to the Twitter files that\u2019s both laughable and damning.\u201d He added an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/hamilton-68-brief-addendum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">addendum<\/a> Highlighting the changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides Hamilton 68, three groups deserve condemnation for peddling the Russian-bots hoax: the media, corrupt politicians, and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1830915,"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":[3685,5806,11172,4188,4633,4253],"class_list":["post-1830912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-democrats","tag-guilty","tag-hamilton","tag-media","tag-scandal","tag-twitter"],"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\/1830912","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}