{"id":1833539,"date":"2023-02-03T07:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833539"},"modified":"2023-02-03T07:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:06:39","slug":"2018-senate-testimony-tells-a-different-story-than-hamilton-68s-masterminds-are-telling-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2018-senate-testimony-tells-a-different-story-than-hamilton-68s-masterminds-are-telling-now\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Senate Testimony Tells A Different Story Than Hamilton 68\u2019s Masterminds Are Telling Now"},"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\">28<\/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%2F2018-senate-testimony-tells-a-different-story-than-hamilton-68s-masterminds-are-telling-now%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=1833539&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>In response to last week\u2019s \u201cTwitter Files\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1619029772977455105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Takedown<\/a> of the Hamilton 68 dashboard, which purportedly tracked Russian influence campaigns on social media, the dashboard\u2019s sponsor issued a response blaming \u201cthe media, pundits, and even some lawmakers\u201d For misrepresenting and misinterpreting the data. However, the congressional record says a different story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a bare minimum, the U.S. government needs to have an understanding of what Russia is doing in social media,\u201d Clint Watts, who is responsible for the Hamilton 68 dashboard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/services\/files\/12847244-A89D-4A68-A6A5-CF9CB547E35B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submitted<\/a> The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at hearings on Jan. 17, 2018. \u201cTerrorism and Social Media: Is Big Tech Doing Enough?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hamilton 68 platform I\u2019ve tried to provide to the U.S. government directly through multiples agencies\u201d Watts suggested Watts do this, stating that \u201cregardless of the outcome of the election in 2016,\u201d We should \u201cwant to equip our intelligence agencies, our law enforcement agencies, and the Department of Defense with just an understanding \u2026 just an understanding of what Russian active measures are doing around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no excuse for it,\u201d Watts concluded. \u201cI can\u2019t understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watts\u2019 2018 Senate testimony bolstering the Hamilton 68 dashboard as the means of \u201cunderstanding \u2026 what Russia is doing in social media,\u201d It is impossible to be in sync with <a href=\"https:\/\/securingdemocracy.gmfus.org\/fact-sheet-hamilton-68-dashboard-2017-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attempts<\/a> by the dashboard\u2019s host, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, to extricate itself from the latest scandal exposed by \u201cThe Twitter Files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Taibbi was an independent journalist who published his first issue a week ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton\">p<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">u<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton\">You are blished<\/a> \u201cMove Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud,\u201d The internal Twitter communications revealed that Hamilton 68 used a flawed methodology. Instead of using Russian bots and trolls for Russian influence campaigns assessment, Hamilton 68 used accounts. \u201cunderstand\u201d What the Russians were doing with social media \u201cneither strongly Russian nor strongly bots.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Other tweets stressed the importance of this. \u201cno evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of Russian information ops,\u201d Hamilton 68 was \u201chardly evidence of a massive influence campaign.\u201d Twitter\u2019s then-chief of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, said it more simply: \u201cI think we need to just call this out on the bullsh-t it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter tried to warn politicians, media and politicians against Hamilton 68. But the tech giant decided to go with the flow. \u201clong game,\u201d Instead of calling out the BS, Twitter limited its public comments to vague counters for claims of Russian influence campaigns. Twitter is the best platform for this. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/01\/twitter-media-and-democrats-are-all-guilty-in-the-hamilton-68-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deserves<\/a> condemnation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton 68, however, was the winner. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/hamilton-68-brief-addendum?r=5mz1\">Promoted<\/a> As a result, \u201cresource for journalists to appropriately identify Russian-sponsored information campaigns,\u201d At least at the beginning, it was. It is to blame. Yet You can find more information atfter Taibbi\u2019s expos\u00e9 broke, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, or ASD, <a href=\"https:\/\/securingdemocracy.gmfus.org\/fact-sheet-hamilton-68-dashboard-2017-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued<\/a> a \u201cFact Sheet\u201d Response that tried to shift the blame to others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its \u201cFact Sheet,\u201d ASD claimed control of the dashboard \u201canalyzed a dynamic list of more than 600 Twitter accounts linked, wittingly or unwittingly, to Russian influence activities online,\u201d before complaining that \u201crecent reporting on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Senate testimony can&#8217;t be squared with the Alliance for Securing Democracy&#8217;s attempts to extricate itself from the Hamilton 68 scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1833542,"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":[4476,17466,11172,17467,3740,4178,7712,4425,8676],"class_list":["post-1833539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-4476","tag-68s","tag-hamilton","tag-masterminds","tag-senate","tag-story","tag-telling","tag-tells","tag-testimony"],"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\/1833539","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=1833539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}