Post #1182965
2025-07-10 02:02 UTC
🧵In 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee asked me to help analyze a data set that FB, Twitter, and Google had turned over: several hundred gigs of posts chronicling a multi-year effort by Russian trolls to divide American society *and* interfere in the 2016 American presidential election.
The data was very clear: the Russians had a candidate they clearly wanted to boost. Who do you think that was?
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retconning--russiagate
Replies (4)
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@Noupside@saturation.social 2025-07-10 02:02
As it happens, a year BEFORE I did that work, the CIA and others in the IC released an assessment saying they believed Russia had aspired to help Trump win (among other things). The sitting CIA director is now retconning that conclusion. A tradecraft review of the assessment found it should have been a *moderate* confidence assessment -not high- but didn’t dispute the conclusion. Ratcliffe is spinning it as ‘destroying the “Russiagate hoax”’ anyway. (Not sure what the term means now)
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2025-07-10 05:42
@Noupside And they succeeded twice. By now, the damage done to the US, the West and the geopolitical equilibrium is immense.
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@gonzo_askold@mastodon.social 2025-07-10 06:14
@Noupside the stupid one
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@Chesi@mastodon.social 2025-07-10 06:16
@Noupside Harambe?