Disinformation Mules & QAnon Content Generators
A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Originally Published March 23, 2022
When I observed during my deep dive into the weaponized single purpose, multi-account hate group KassandraSeven network on Twitter that prominent content generators of conspiracies cozy up and frequently interact with verified accounts in a prosocial manner, even followed one another, I found it rather curious. When I say content generators, I really do mean it. So many names interconnected to QAnon/Chans/Kuns were frequently encountered going into a “pull” thread tagged with my name I figured it was going to be quite the slog, though fascinating, despite my pre-block of Fredrick Brennan.
Of course there have also been frequent interactions between the main KassandraSeven network and the verified, because that is how one props up fake experts, talking heads and phony researchers, socially enhancing their profiles. Essentially, each time others see you and them interacting in what appears to be an authentic conversation, both appearing to be equals, that implies trust and respect. People pick up on that. They believe.
Those kinds of inauthentic conversations made so people see and believe they are real, come from the “get Tulsi Gabbard some votes” playbook. That same piece codified the keyword search tactic the KassandarSeven op and Tara Reade op are doing when both found and then engaged me. Other malign tactics too, like when to engage and how to use blocks to enrage and possibly game Twitter into banning “enemy” accounts. While Tulsi’s online “warriors” had a playbook, so did others likely employing similar underhanded tactics developed and deployed by the same bad actors.
If we only understood who benefits most from such obviously aligned and appearance-like of a Fifth Column purposes between the Tulsi, Bernie Bros, KassandraSeven, Qanon, and GOP?
I just can’t put my finger on who that exactly benefits most. Hmm.
I asked Mensch why she boosts such frauds, multiple times across conversations, and she, like a well-seasoned former conservative British politician she is, moved on by, as if the question never registered. Tyler M, who has used a different handle since disposing of Jim Stewartson’s account, did answer that question in a rather fun way, stating they knew each other from Twitter. Essentially, they are friends from work. Indeed. Friends. From work.
I only asked because of this reputation enhancing tweet, noting onlyfansofOPP as a now non-existent but totally not-obvious handle of either a no-longer in play banned sock or attack account:
If you have been following what I am doing on Twitter, you might see some of these connections here. Louise Mensch, who according to Jim tweeted at him once and was blocked instantly, did two things in this tweet. The first is obvious to me in that Mensch is boosting Tyler M’s profile as an “expert” which he clearly is not. He is running a single target hate account. See for your self looking at his profile:
The second part of that Mensch tweet, the name Neal Rauhauser and Sock accounts, and THAT being important, IS. Sue, via her sock account Octopus on March 21st kept throwing out the name Neil/Neal, two months after the fact that Mensch used it, in this back and forth unexpected thread when I questioned her and Jan how they “knew” Jim had been banned for using a sock account and unauthorized API.
(It’s unexpected since they “called off engaging me” but obviously couldn’t)
As soon as I googled the name Neal Rauhauser I almost burst out into laughter. Tons of nonsense blogs, the concept of exhaustion lawsuits (which are real) and online harassment popped up connected to the name and being a criminal on the run. That is when one knows what the KassandraSeven group is doing has got to cost a pretty Ruble, Dogecoin or whatever, to fund, because this nonsense doesn’t write itself onto the web. I suppose most of the content these operatives create for the network, has to have some bogus blogs and websites built up for them, just in case anybody goes to look it up.
Last time I saw that level of buildup of obviously prepped and fake material was during the time I prepped for my 2019 book on Trump, slogging through a search on Trump and Epstein’s lawsuit and instead getting around fifty pages of links to variations the same clip of a 2015 CPAC staged question to Trump delivered by Sean Hannity, that being, “What do you think about Bill?” Because all the dates were in the April 2016 range, in preparation of a PsyOp to project Trump’s legal issues with Epstein onto Bill, stemming from a lawsuit against the two men known under the name Katie Johnson, I recorded the wrong date. During editing of my book, I looked up the date of CPAC where Hannity and Trump appeared together, corrected the citation and didn’t think anything of it until Epstein’s arrest when all the pieces fell into place. By the time I wrote my best, and only published PizzaGate origin piece, the “Great QAnon Social Media Purge” happened, “deep-sixing” all of those, along with most QAnon accounts like the Watkins.
The “Neal/Neil” conspiracy, likely hatched, but not fully baked by these K7 operatives so far has failed because the orgs disinformation mules lacking credibility themselves, aren’t getting the media bookings the op depends on. Without media oxygen, badly written conspiracies dry out and die, while some, the ones visible expert propagandists Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity pushes out, thrive.
This type of PsyOp is all about exposure, not being exposed, so disinformation mules like Mike Rothschild, pushing inane conspiracies nobody has heard before on blogs, are seeing work dry up.
Check Mike’s work for yourself.
At the bottom of his page, click on older posts and scroll, again and again. Lots of articles. You’ll likely notice most of this stuff isn’t anything that you or even your fun-loving tin-foil-hat wearing weird uncle has heard about. Perhaps that is because nobody outside of their operation’s content generation staff has.
While there were a handful of mainstream conspiracies covered that didn’t originate within the collective, like the Fox/GOP’s Uranium One Congressional Investigation op in Mike’s blog, the work he created wasn’t serious nor purposeful. He still managed to use that blog and other work like larping with friends in a chatroom for a month claiming it was related to QAnon to get verified and booked on media
I wrote fairly extensively in my book on how Uranium One, a Trey Gowdy chosen cover-up Investigation op was deployed to diminish and discredit an eventual whistle-blown illegal Trump approved sale of enough weapons grade uranium to equip fifty Saudi and allies nuclear reactors.
Here is my book, which isn’t grifting Louise, Mike and Sue, as actual research/work happened to make it possible, should anyone choose to buy.
And here is that well-earned indictment foreign agent and long time Trump pal Tom Barrack got for getting UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia a more advanced nuclear program than Iran has. This indictment only happened because one, Democrats won back the House in 2018 and two, Biden appointed Merrick Garland is slow but purposefully allowing at least some Bill Barr curbed investigations to proceed. Voting DOES matter.
Still, nothing prevents the KassandraSeven group from trying to pin a manufactured Neal/Neil conspiracy, BlueAnon conspiracy, Jim is Unwell and any other throw-at-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks conspiracies they no doubt have created but haven’t yet tried out, just to “discredit” Jim. Or me. But that is the problem when a disinformation and false-left operation isn’t working the way it was set up to be. Things fall apart, not just because of fake dog pics and emails, but other distractions. Like war.
Conspiracy content creation must be a rather hard job these days, especially when your paid outfit’s disinformation mules are maligned, discredited and no longer able to launder the material through the main stream media. It’s only going to get harder and harder.
One reason that job is harder, not counting the debunked conspiracies these people did push successfully through, like the nonsense Alfa Bank wire-tapped Trump Tower or the secret but fake sealed indictment stuff, is that guys like Jim Stewartson and others began exposing their operations.
It gets VERY hard especially when one has to keep up appearances as a false-left, research, curate and compile databases, spend time on clean-up, work on harassment techniques as weaponized misogyny and suicidal suggestion tactics aren’t working, getting the group MORE exposed, and mistakes keep being made by some of the paid trolls, making it harder to hold things together. Almost makes one feel a bit sorry for them. Nah. Not even their handlers have that much sympathy. Poorly functioning disinformation mules can take on different purposes.
This above 2018 hit piece uses Louise Mensch’s follies at getting herself caught pushing disinformation mainstream, as a cudgel to blunt the effectiveness of both Seth Abramson and Eric Garland’s separate work using a guilt by association tactic. Nice. Sure Mensch can claim it is a hit piece on her, and that does have some merit. Is it really? No. If you know what Eric and Seth have been doing the past couple years, its clear they are doing excellent work that Russia’s fifth column isn’t too found of, so lumping threats with a highly depreciated asset to hurt others credibility by association seems rather smart, if people fall for it. Mensch isn’t, and wasn’t ever leftwing.
As an aside, this below is one of their, meaning the KassandraSeven collective screen grabs on me. Always easier to just be honest like Louise states just above.
I registered freshman year at BYU in the Republican Party, voted Ross Perot in my first Presidential election, consider myself an independent conservative, and up until 2016 had voted heavy GOP in every general election. In 2018 and 2020 I didn’t vote for a single R, disgusted with my former party. Still, I remain registered as a Republican simply so I can get up to three opportunities to vote out the incumbent, likely never voting another R in a general election.
Back to the grind.
It isn’t clear whether all these assorted real-life characters I encountered (or avoided) so far are part of the same operation fragmenting off the main cog, KassandraSeven. Some like Louise clearly states she and K7 are blocking each other (though not K7s alt Octopus_teach). Despite likely factions existing within these groups, they collectively do share the same objectives, that is spreading disinformation and stomping on those that expose what they are up to.
One faction, you have pals Mike Rothschild and Fredrick Brennan. Fred REALLY wants to pin Q on Ron Watkins, like it is a hot potato he helped build with totally uncensored hate-raging 8Chan which he launched. On another stand likely both Jim and Ron using alts after original accounts were canceled in the purge. While I am not certain Slim Jim Watkins is the elder, there sure are a lot of potential masked Ron and Jim Watkins clones branching out of the KassandraSeven collective it is conceivable I have.
The KassandraSeven operation appears to have three primary components to their membership, conspiracy content generation, social influence promotion and a negative highly caustic attack and swarm component. My key interest, the big fish, were those blue check influencers that built up the reputations of fake left and fraudulent disinformation researchers that almost exclusively mask their accounts while reaping benefits from circular conversations with the verified. Engaging these disinformation mules, not the little guys, the Chan/QAnon creators, bots or people pulled in unwittingly, was more real than say, spending just one-month “infiltrating” a chat room with “friends” talking about Q, and using that to get on CNN and stuff.
Sigh.
Mensch, I called out to engage, over why she muddied the waters building up the reputations of masked accounts that had attacked Stewartson, repeatedly, mind you, before she came to the party in middle of the kinetic war, to engage in the informational one. Much respect for that. Jared L. Holt and Mike Rothschild came out when Erin Gallagher, a decent sized probable fake researcher and known attacker towards Jim Stewartson, initiated a troll swarm using the retweet with weaponized misogyny schtick. The fourth verified, whom follows most of the other accounts, doesn’t post on Twitter, merely supports the fake researchers and lefties with likes. Since she didn’t engage, I am not going to name her.
Teams in PsyOps appear essential. Members apparently are also expendable. But who really is on top of all this? Who is the one calling the shots in this informational twitter battle for team KassandraSeven?
While it is entirely possible Tyler M was talking to Mensch via DM, it was noted he didn’t join the engagement save one short response, about knowing Mensch from Twitter. But, I digress. Louise won’t sue Jim.
As I have explained in at least one thread, discovery, something that happens when one sues or is sued, would allow access to the very documents she and anyone who is above her wanted to shield. Besides, her claim of defame considering what else is written out there regarding her work prior to whatever this is she is doing, is admissible especially for a public figure like she is. So are her financials. Who and how she and others are paid, is critical, whether the money is laundered through an agreement to buy a certain amount of books, crypto or some other payment, having to give that sort of information up, isn’t worth the risk.
While I don’t yet agree with Jim on his tweet stating Mensch was an Eric Prince op, as that, while suggested as a possibility isn’t provable, someone is footing the bills for all this paid work for content generation and disinformation muling. Whoever is, has to fund raise constantly, right Mike?
What has been established is who is a primary beneficiary of what Louise is doing.
Mensch was pictured with prominent dirty trickster Milo Yiannopoulos, something I saw when I clicked onto the Stewartson substack she kept posting. That was the point/context Jared and Mike, of me naming Milo repeatedly. I asked her about that, knowing he is a flame throwing grunt on a similar level, not a kingpin.
While I appreciate the candor here, I do find it highly disingenuous that Mensch didn’t see Milo’s work since 2014 for a far-right extremist mag, Breitbart, as potentially a no no for Heat Street. Also, not taking a meeting as someone who has shifted from romance novel writing, to British politician to now reporter with Trump, the frontrunner to the Republican nomination that had things likely locked up at that time, is so mind-boggling illogical. A reporter would take the introduction. They would also seek out Prince when in such close proximity. Why? Because that is part of the job.
While her statements don’t really add up logically, Mensch does have some good tweets that despite my not giving context are things I agree with.
Here is one:
There is just one more thing I need to drop. This.
Seems appropriate, considering social media influence campaigns are still operational identifying, sorting and messing with people’s heads, lives and careers.
Cheers!