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Ted MD's avatar

Thank you for following and documenting the faux research and activism accounts and dragging them into the sunlight, Steven.

Can confirm for any readers that these people and groups in these articles are antidemocratic extremists who are willing to take whoever they can get, and they portray a horrible parody of what the research community on the Twitter platform actually was and did and still does which is necessary in the face of revisionists like the people in the articles here. The resource behind the characters varies, as do the purposes they serve, but the quality of personnel (and "useful idiot") never improves.

Ouro (in the center image) listed a subreddit on their Twitter profile that had a mod named "L*ligrabber" which is nasty and would immediately upon reviewing the mods be a reason to not only leave the board but not post it on some other profile. His friends are populists like Brad that I've screenshotted apologizing for white supremacist "boogaloo" race war inciters. Their "Q researcher" ran a q friendly account saying damaging things with Posobiec in the latter's (who he still shill's for) replies. And their top influencer came in saying they were debunking disinfo and spent months instead flaming a celebrity in a divorce and attacking people who actually write about the root of most of the disinformation. Their data guy graphed hostile networks but ignores that their phony "OSINT" influence account is denying the existence of those networks. Leah going at Emptywheel was another idiotic act of narcissism. No matter where they go now it's in disgrace, there will always be someone who notices and questions them, who finds what they've done.

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KatheO's avatar

Evil Vapid Fkers. Time is up! In a large part thanks to you, Mr. Jarvis. I'm going to award you and Jim the Medal of Freedom for outstanding, nonstop documentation of the minnows, fighting for our precious democracy against the most evil, moronic regimes, saving lives, minds and hearts. And bringing these puppet masters from hell to JUSTICE. Mahalo, sir!

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