In yet another instance of circular fuckery, during the “Release the Memo” wars, Feinstein and Schiff cited the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy and the ASD’s contention that release the memo was the result of bots.

https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338

Turns out that the Alliance for Securing Democracy was launched in JULY of 2017. Advisors listed below – site has been scrubbed of staff names, but was archived: http://archive.li/uK1PH#selection-797.0-797.17

This group has two ‘disinformation dashboards’ watching twitter trending and takes it upon themselves to ‘advise’ propogandists about how they are approaching their story slants.

Laura Rosenberger -

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/xw4a8a/the-former-hillary-clinton-advisor-tracking-russian-bots-and-trolls

Regarding the ‘dashboard’ she helped create:

“We do a lot of work with journalists to try to better inform their reporting. Journalists watch the dashboard, see what stories are trending, and think about why they might be promoting this particular story. They can incorporate this knowledge into their reporting.”

German Marshal Fund Alliance for Securing Democracy Advisory Council:

Mike Chertoff

Toomas Hendrik

David J. Kramer

William Kristol

Michael Morell

Michael McFaul

Kori Schake

Julianne “Julie” Smith

Jake Sullivan

Nicole Wong served as deputy U.S. chief technology officer in the Obama administration, where she focused on internet, privacy, and innovation policy. Prior to her time in government, Nicole was Google’s vice president and deputy general counsel, and Twitter’s legal director for products.

From this morning: Russian Bots on their 'Dashboard of Disinformation'…. DoD? (pic related)