Project Destin, DeSantis's Bot Army

A Series On Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge

Let’s start with this.

Remi Barrette works for Yonder, formerly New Knowledge as a subcontractor.

In 2016 Barrette worked for Louise Mensch, using his access as a data security tech for Bell, Canada to track and record data for what began as three spam emails sign-ups at Trump Tower, sent to two email accounts at Russian-affiliated banks and one at Spectrum Health for its association to Betsy Devos.

Mensch is noted above in a court filing written by employee Joe Fionda to have hired himself and Will Welna, two members of the Anonymous Collective, similar to Remi. That work ran with Mensch’s ‘President’ Richie Guinn, AKA Countercheckist forms the backbone of Yonder’s RussiaGate narrative.

I have noted the set-up Louise ran with Remi to begin the second stage of the Alfa op on Twitter. This was something I didn’t catch at the time BEFORE Louise ‘asked’ for help, showing they were already working together.

As Louise works for Yonder, so too does Remi Barrette, AKA Conspirator0, AKA Tea Leaves, AKA Ryushi.

I’ll also note this from Joe Fionda admitting the purpose of his own hire was to spy on Americans, just for context.

Project Destin was a DeSantis-centric op, ran in 2021, templated after the companies original bot-op, Project Birmingham. Barrette’s work on that op is noted below, falsely associating Roy Moore with Russian bots.

Project Birmingham was funded jointly by the PayPal Mafia, with Reid Hoffman publicly apologizing and Trump’s Department of Defense. It had two parts. The one on Facebook propping up a spoiler candidate got the most attention despite being ineffective. What didn’t, were the American-made ‘Russian bots.’

Peter Thiel’s righthand, Jeff Giesea described their work as using social media to influence mainstream media. That part worked flawlessly leading to the company later establishing that as a template of ‘what worked’ with its resident bot expert Remi Barrette using it over and over and over.

The problem with Remi’s work, is that it became too patterned, too predictable. Note his one-size-fits all idea that every botnet uses the same image creating tech? He’s written extensively using the same outdated 2021 template despite technology advancing well past that point in 2023 with more advanced AI image generation.

The above image blotted out, is that of my daughter, her image used as a seed and altered her slightly via an AI program, with child-sex-meme creator Michelangelo Maccabee posting her name online as he put up her image as his profile.

Yet it was Remi’s bots and Yonder influencer socknet (ran by real people on anonymous accounts) that I went to the DailyBeast about.

The Project Destin operation was ran under DeSantis’s press secretaries Christina Pushaw, Jeremey Redfern and Brian Griffin. It had three distinctive waves. First they built a wave of Russian bots mid-March, then Turkish. After that in April, Barrette ran the Round Year Fun app op. As Pushaw followed ALMOST ALL the socknet accounts, she was in the loop about how the operation was proceeding, noted here after Barrette hacked into and removed Jones’s account.

Same day Barrette hacked Jones’s account, he also went on the record at Forbes, hoodwinking Augustine Fou, no doubt using his self-verifying alt, ZellaQuixote that is sometimes ran by a secondary operative.

Here again was Barrette’s slip-up, logged onto ZQ posting as Conspirator0 noted by being a Tango musician and Bell, Canada employee.

Having an alt to confirm one’s own data, to fool the press, worked out fairly well on fooling me until this above post.

Barrette knew how their Project Destin operation framing Jones to obscure his hacking was done, as he built the botnets and manufactured data meant to get her kicked off of Twitter.

Pushaw’s team sent a complaint in to Twitter, 4/12/21. Weeks passed.

Nothing happened until June 7, 2021, when Barrette gained console access, read Jones’s DMs planning a Twitter-based campaign and fundraising launch, something DeSantis later would copy. That led to Barrette taking action, banning the account himself.

The above splash screen represents a portion of the narrative work Yonder did for DeSantis. Note MaxNordau admitting the intent of their op, was to defund the campaign by denying access to Jones’s then 350K legitimate following.

MaxNordau similar to RickyVaughn, Microchip, Spicci and other personalities, has had more than one user. Originally the "‘Muscular Jew” behind the sock was Andrew McGimpsey, a Jewish Kokomo, Indiana man into bodybuilding and botnet building. That was known due to an op he ran on early weekday morning with his own account agimpsey, a sock account, ‘attempting’ to get MaxNordau back online after several of his accounts got banned for Spam and Manipulation. After Andrew felt considerable heat over his use of the sock, it’s likely Brian Griffin, another Press Secretary for DeSantis runs it mostly.

When this was reported in the Kokomo Tribune, Remi Barrette under his alias despite working WITH McGimpsey for DeSantis on Project Destin, was given the lead of the story protecting his co-conspirator’s identity.

Also within that article, Remi’s hacking costar, college degreed actor Mike Rothschild went on to lie several times, not too different than what he does on TV protecting the group’s QAnon project along with Mike Flynn, who doesn’t pay Rothschild directly. Rothschild instead operates under Flynn’s understudy, Doug Mathew Stewart, who uses Rothschild’s bloodthirsty acting talents deftly hammered out in his pre-QAnon QAnon play My Life, where he as the main character ODs after murdering a migrant, then drinking out of the head of another man he had killed despite he having written that in decades earlier.

This next account, belonging to Louise Mensch’s Team Patriot partner, Andrew Auernheimer, confirmed when he and Remi, got full admin access to Twitter, now X, allowing them access to any users’ private data June 2021, the same time it was known DeSantis met Jack Dorsey in Orlando at a tech conference.

Here is an old throwback, post prison release, noting Andrew works for the PayPal Mafia, ie Peter Thiel, Jeff Giesea, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, etc.

While a ton of data is collected establishing Auernheimer above has having full access to X, Project Destin was ran mostly via Remi Barrette. Here below is the key evidence establishing Susan Portnoy, AKA KassandraSeven, as having access to hacked information, a post-dated archive made May 8, 2022 of a deleted tweet that can only be accessed via console—the tool allowing Yonder to spy on Americans DMs, ban accounts, verify botnets, and to hack offline using IP address information stored within X’s data center.

I have other data proving Barrette has this access still, with Musk knowing via Ella Irwin.

Then there are the ops.

First, let’s note that Remi, in true hacker form, used a callsign on his Conspirador Norteno account. That as we know is a shoutout to his pride of being in Norteno, a Canadian Tango band.

Back when I was pointing out who Barrette was, his Facebook wasn’t publicly available. An indy journalist was brought in, meant to obscure what was already known by ‘finding’ the now searchable Facebook account.

Let’s put a few things to rest. Barrette was identified internally by a confidential source along with Susan Portnoy, Brad Shuttleworth, and a handful of the more prominent Yonder Anon influencers. A list of those people were sent to me, probably a year after all of their identities were known. Then later, GalNeon, AKA Kei, had a falling out of sorts with the group posting names and numbers confirming what the source had said.

Some other ‘fun’ times

Another op Yonder ran with Pushaw was this throw-away that in hindsight only further exposed the connections between the company and Pushaw.

Pushaw after Project Destin followed only significant accounts, such as journalists, government officials, etc. That differed from what she was doing more than a year earlier where she followed at least a couple dozen anon socks within the DeSantis socknet ran by Yonder operatives including Marc Dantz’s 1776 handler, Winkie_Doo.

The above sock was literally the only account within the last 1000 follows Pushaw had, that wasn’t relevant politically save to Remi Barrette ‘reporting’ on Christina following it and it being EXACTLY like all other bots he featured.

The account unlike most he features, wasn’t banned post-op. It’s still active either as a sock, or an AI driven bot.