JRL NEWSWATCH: “Latest Twitter Files show media, Dems relied on single source alleging ‘Russian bot’ activity: ‘It was a scam'” – Fox

“Elon Musk says ‘shame on MSNBC’ for pushing misleading Russian bots narratives.”

“… [T]he dubious source that … media and Democrats heavily relied on to peddle the false narrative of Russian bot activity on the [Twitter] platform. … [was] Hamilton 68, … spearheaded by former FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor Clint Watts[] [and] operated by the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), a ‘neoliberal think tank’ founded in 2017 with an advisory council that includes Clinton ally John Podesta, former Obama-era acting CIA director Michael Morrell, former Obama official Michael McFaul and The Bulwark editor-at-large Bill Kristol. … [B]ehind the scenes, Twitter executives trashed Hamilton 68 and deliberated whether they should publicly rebuke ASD. … ‘Twitter executives were in a unique position to recreate Hamilton’s list, reverse-engineering it from the site’s requests for Twitter data. … [W]hat they found shocked them,’ Taibbi wrote. ‘”These accounts,” they concluded, “are neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots.” … “Hardly illuminating a massive influence operation.” … ‘In layman’s terms, the Hamilton 68 barely had any Russians. In fact, apart from a few RT accounts, it’s mostly full of ordinary Americans, Canadians, and British,’ … ‘… Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming.’ …”

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