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Anonymous ID: 2a5011 Dec. 24, 2018, 7:22 p.m. No.4458571   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8674 >>9078 >>9132

>>4454708 pb

New Knowledge DIGG, con't.

 

Hamilton 68: Still used to track fake Russian bots & "pro-Kremlim" groups

 

In a new video (>>4456104), YT host Tim Pool talks about the NYT article about simulating Russian bots to influence a recent Alabama election (see Q 2635).

 

But he adds something new to the mix: the influential role of Hamilton 68.

 

Hamilton 68 is a website launched In Aug. 2017 by Clint Watts. Purpose: to track Russian propaganda."in near-real time, as it spreads via Twitter accounts that have been linked to Russian influence operations." The name is a nod to Alexander Hamilton and Federalist Paper #68, which focuses on protecting our electoral process from foreign interference.

 

Hamilton 68 comes up in Pool's video because the head of New Knowledge, Jonathon Morgan, made the claim just last year that "Russian trolls, trapped by #Hamilton68, are taking an interest in the Alabama Senate race." So Morgan clearly buys into the Hamilton 68 narrative.

 

Watts claims that Hamilton 68 tracks 600 Russian bots plus news accounts that push the "Kremlin narrative." But the list of bots is secret (can't be checked out); and the people it tracks are conservatives.

 

Although Zerohedge, Fortune, and The Columbia Journalism Review now consider its algorithm bogus, H68 is still widely used to bolster fake claims about Russian influence and the negative influence of conservative groups (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-18/cnn-uses-discredited-hamilton-68-website-claim-walkaway-campaign-hijacked-russian).

 

Pool had no trouble finding articles that use the H68 algorithm to justify their conclusions:

Rolling Stone: "Release the Memo: What's the Conspiracy Behind the Right-Wing Meme?"

Snopes: "Fake News and Bots Target Author of Democratic Memo"

Quartz: "Russian Trolls and Bots are Flodding Twitter with Ford-Kavanaugh Disinformation"

Mother Jones: "After Russia Attacked Ikrainian Ships, These Twitter Accounts Joined the Battle"

Haaretz: "How Putin and the Far Right Played the Paris Yellow Vests Protests"

 

But there's no real science here, just propaganda dressed up to LOOK like science. Pool concludes that the object of the New Knowledge study was simply to smear Republicans. The pseudo-scientific H68 justified what would otherwise be a non-story.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJYkk6xiywE

 

Moar on Hamilton 68

 

  • Relevant now because most people still don't know its algorithm is bogus.

 

  • Version 2.0 comes out In Jan. 2019.

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-68/

 

  • Alliance for Securing Democracy created the hamilton 68 algorithm; this org is a "who's who" of DS operatives like Bill Krisol, Jake Sullivan & Michael Chertoff (>>3012747).

https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/03/hamilton-68-website-tracks-russian-backed-propaganda-on-twitter/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Securing_Democracy#Advisory_council_and_staff

 

  • Algorithm was used to claim that Straka's #walkaway campaign was hijacked by Russian bots.

 

  • Anons on H68: "Hamilton68 doesn't track propaganda. It is propogranda…."the darkest Swamp" (>>1938360); H68 says that QResearch Board is mainly Russian bots (>>95832, >>1053619).

Anonymous ID: 2a5011 Dec. 24, 2018, 7:34 p.m. No.4458723   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8826

>>4458548

You're not the only one. I usually check the index, too. But funny things happen. Once, two of us posted at almost the same time (same topic). That was weird. Sometimes I'm so tired after digging for 4 or 5 hours that it's hard to concentrate. Or suddenly Q posts. Or the Board goes down. etc.

 

What I'm saying is that even when people try to keep up, there's a lot to track. We're pretty good but not perfect. Sometimes I see things marked notable that I think were already notable but people are really into it in the present bread–really interested. Maybe that's good if it gets a discussion going. That 2015 stuff from JW, for example, has been listed at least twice recently as notable, both times as a reminder (about how bad HRC really is). I know it's duplication…but sometimes it seems ok.

Anonymous ID: 2a5011 Dec. 24, 2018, 8 p.m. No.4459094   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>4458674

Yes, this is an excellent video; I've been trying go get some eyes on it. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes not so much! Did you post this several breads ago? That's where I first saw it.

Anonymous ID: 2a5011 Dec. 24, 2018, 8:05 p.m. No.4459159   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>4459099

 

You are right, anon. Nothing like this should be happeniing, not in this land of the free home of the brave.

 

But this is truly a bizarre time in history. Like the 1930s in Germany–everything turning inside-out. People used to say "it can't happen here." Yet here it is.

 

But it's not the 1930s. We are here, we are aware, and we are becoming stronger every day. "we" is becoming "WE."

 

God bless you, friend, and all of us here. We just have to keep our eyes upwards, stay together, and do not despair.

 

Christmas blessings upon you.