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Report: Former Gen. Stanley McChrystal helping Dems combat Republicans online

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 7:00pm

WaPo: McChrystal advising group “planning to deploy technologyoriginally developed to counter Islamic State propagandain service of a domestic political goal – to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic”

We know that an enormous amount of time, energy, and money are being funneled into a massive array of leftist groups with__ the sole purpose being to take down President Trump __and/or to ensure he loses in November.

One of the more troubling such efforts being reported involves software allegedly funded by the U.S. taxpayer to track and defeat ISIS. This software is being used__ by a Democrat group__ to ensure Trump’s coronavirus messaging gets disappeared and/or refuted by )paid “influencers” online.

It should be noted that the group’s claims of using taxpayer-funded software have been disputed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Whether or not the group is padding its resume in terms of the origins of the software and who paid for it, the details of this Democrat group’s anti-Trump online activities are alarming.

These activities reportedly include former General Stanley McChrystal acting as an advisoron how best to deploy the anti-terrorist software against Trump supporters online, boosting leftist narratives that run counter to Trump’s, and paying armies of online trolls to counter anything related to the Wuhan coronavirus that is pro-Trump.

The Washington Post reports (archive link here):

A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal – to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The group, Defeat Disinfo, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president’s claimson social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country – in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president.

Democrats are worried that Trump’s support has not collapsed despite their and their media cohorts’ constant efforts, and they seek to quash his support online, hoping to destroy his base support, poll numbers, and his chances for reelection.

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WaPo continues:

The initiative reflects fears within the Democratic Party that Trump’s unwavering digital army may help sustain him through the pandemic, as it has through past controversies, even as the economy craters, tens of thousands have died, and Trump suffers in the polls.

“It’s often said campaigns are a battle of ideas, but they’re really a battle of narratives,” said David Eichenbaum, a Democratic media consultant who is a senior adviser to the PAC. “Today those narratives spread quickly online.”

Disturbingly, if not surprisingly,the group will apparently be pushing false narratives, ones that have been debunked here at LI and elsewhere.

WaPo continues:

The initiative is run by Curtis Hougland, whose received initial funding for the technology from DARPA, the Pentagon’s research arm, as part of an effort to combat extremism overseas. He insists Democrats are ill-prepared for the looming battle over information and attention, which is bound to play an outsize role in November.

Hougland cites as an example Trump’s suggestion last week that injecting bleach or other household disinfectants could be a treatment for the novel coronavirus – a moment that appeared unequivocally damaging to the president but was less clear-cut as it unfolded on social media.

Although the episode was associated with a spike in Twitter engagement about Trump, especially in swing states such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, according to Hougland’s analysis, four of the top six tweets about Trump and disinfectant came from accounts partial to the president, boosting the notion that he had not really suggested the bogus cure.

For his part, McChrystal claims that his involvement in the coordinated online hit job against the president is related to stopping the spread of disinformation.

He also seems to understand that this is questionable tactic because he justifies it by stating, “everyone wishes the Pandora’s box was closed and none of this existed, but it does.”

Yes, it’s there reportedly to combat ISIS, not to be used against the duly-elected American president and the millions of American citizens who support him. Just because you can, in other words, doesn’t mean you should.

From WaPo:

McChrystal said his interest in the PAC is about ensuring the accuracy of information leading up to the election, even if it involves chasing viral attention with emotional appeals and other tactics rewarded by online clicks. “Everyone wishes the Pandora’s box was closed and none of this existed, but it does,” McChrystal said in an interview.

His ambivalence is shared by large parts of the Democratic Party, which recoiled at an effort, brought to light at the end of 2018, to use Russian-inspired tactics, including the creation of fake accounts, to sway the 2017 Senate election in Alabama.

You may recall McChrystal appearing on television to declare the president dishonest and “immoral.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/05/report-gen-mcchrystal-advising-dem-group-on-using-software-to-combat-trump-online/

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INFORMATION WARFARE

Defeat Disinfo PAC

Website: defeatdisinfo.org

Location: NY

Executive Director: Curtis Hougland

Type: pAC

Formation: 2020

Defeat Disinfo Political Action Committee (PAC) is a left-of-center organization leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technology to combat alleged disinformation from President Donald Trump. The PAC was founded by activist Curtis Hougland, a former contractor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). [1] Hougland claims that President Trump’s agenda is killing Americans. [2] The PAC is supporting Obama administration Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 Presidential campaign. [3]

The AI system detects communications from President Trump trending on social media and then finds the most effective opposing viewpoints. The system then contacts a claimed network of social media users to ubiquitously share the stories.Retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, the former head of American military operations in Afghanistan, is an advisor for Defeat Disinfo PAC. [4]

Main Street One

Main Street One is a left-progressive technology firm that leveraged DARPA technology to create and power Defeat Disinfo PAC’s artificial intelligence system. Main Street One has been described as a “rebellious tech start-up.” It received '''fiscal support from start-up incubator Higher Ground Labs, which launched the month after President Donald Trump’s election in 2016. Higher Ground Labs was created by supporters of former President Barack Obama, Betsy Hoover and Shomik Dutta. Main Street One pledged to fund progressive technology start-ups with $10 million and aid the Democratic party by driving political tools to help progressive candidates get elected. [5]

Main Street One received $500,000 for its services to support the Presidential campaign of '''U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). [6]

Leadership'''

Curtis Hougland is the founder of Main Street One and Defeat Disinfo PAC. He was previously a specialist in opposing online extremism and engaged in a propaganda fight against the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS). DARPA, the Pentagon research group, funded his work to counter ISIS’ global messaging. In monitoring the 2016 election cycle, Hougland alleged that Republican operatives employed similar strategies. He started Defeat Disinfo PAC to create a barrage of social media countermeasures to reduce support for President Trump in the 2020 elections. [7]

Hougland has said that President Trump’s message is the greatest accelerator of falsifications in America and that his words create literal damage. [8] His main goal is to create the largest library of anti-Trump information and to share it as needed. [9]

Former U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal is an advisor to the PAC. [10]

Stephanie Berger fundraises for Defeat Disinfo Pac and was previously the national finance director for the Democratic National Committee. [11]

The System

Defeat Disinfo PAC’s system employs artificial intelligence to track President Trump’s messaging and then uses algorithms to select the best way to attack the President’s claims. When President Trump defended the rights of people protesting against stay-at-home lockdown orders, the system recommended countermeasures of healthcare workers’ stories. Defeat Disinfo uses the example of the “bleach” uproar (in which people objected to President Trump’s idle speculation about turning disinfectant bleach into a COVID-19 treatment) as testimony to the need for the system to oppose the President’s statements to the American people. [12]

Social Media Influencers

Defeat Disinfo PAC leverages Main Street One’s technology to distribute the counter-messaging against President Trump’s messaging. The information is sent to a claimed 3.4 million social media participants in the United States; reporting by the Washington Post alleged that some of these participants were paid “influencers.” [13]

These social media supporters are expected to overcome President Trump’s staunch supporters that seek his reelection. [14] The influencers use loaded language, referring to President Trump and his policies in aggressively hostile terms. [15]

Other Democratic-aligned political action committees do not follow Defeat Disinfo PAC’s practice of paying influencers.

https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/defeat-disinfo-pac/