On 2/8/23 10:16 AM, ScottW wrote:
On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 7:48:45 AM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
On 2/8/23 9:31 AM, ScottW wrote:
On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 7:22:41 AM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
Hamilton 68
Interesting.
https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-68-a-new-tool-to-track-russian-disinformation-on-twitter/
"Our objective in providing this dashboard is to help ordinary people,
We now know that was a lie and
You've changed your view on mind-reading.
you are propagating disinformation.
IKWABWAI
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-those-russian-linked >>
"Taibbi’s 43-tweet-long thread about Hamilton 68... wasn't concerned
with how the tool was designed to be used, nor how it helped researchers
when it was used appropriately. Instead, Taibbi’s entire thread
attempted to discredit Hamilton 68 by focusing on how the tool was
misused and offering up a series of strawman arguments that
misrepresented what the dashboard claimed to do."
Yeah...it was "misused". LoL.
They designed it to be misused.
The "misuse" was claiming it was meant to track bots when its intent was
to track influence. As the dashboard was shut down in 2018, Taibbi is Johnny-on-the-spot with this one: old and wrong.
Hey! The Alliance for Securing Democracy has a response so you don't
have to mindread:
https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/fact-sheet-hamilton-68-dashboard-2017-2018/
Recent reporting on Hamilton disregards the dashboard’s published methodology, Hamilton 68 experts’ commentary, and Twitter’s own data.
The dashboard’s original methodology acknowledged that “the content
within the network is complex and should be understood in a nuanced
way.” Members of the media, pundits, and even some lawmakers often
failed to include appropriate context when using the dashboard’s data, despite ASD experts’ extensive efforts to correct misconceptions at the
time. Because the data was consistently misunderstood or misrepresented,
we published multiple follow-up instructions clarifying key points,
including: “Some accounts we track are automated bots, some are trolls,
and some are real users. Some are in Russia, but many are not”.
Unfortunately, the mischaracterization of the dashboard continues today.
We compiled a list of false or misleading claims and have provided the
facts here.
End quote.
Click thru if you care or just continue regurgitating Fox talking points.
Okay, one for fun:
CLAIM: There was no evidence of foreign engagement with the
#releasethememo hashtag and the Hamilton 68 dashboard erroneously
suggested that a link existed.
FACTS: This is directly contradicted by Twitter’s own data (released
nearly a year after the #releasethememo campaign) that showed over 5,000 mentions of #releasethememo by accounts that Twitter itself identified
as being affiliated with foreign information operations. This includes significant engagement from accounts released by Twitter in a January
2019 dataset that it linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency,
examples of which are below.
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