>>5033429 PB Saw this just prior to posting! Added analysis plus Glenn Greenwald's rebuttal
NBC uses "Muh Russia" attack to savage Tulsi Gabbard; Glenn Greenwald counters with hard cold facts
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New Knowledge has been in trouble since Dec. 19 for Alabama election meddling in the service of the false but persistent "Muh Russia" narrative (Trump colluded, Russian bots helped elect him, and conservatives on social media sound a lot like Russian bots). We've been talking about this on this board, wondering whether this narrative was dealt a fatal blow as the result of the NK scandal (see >>4986207 pb).
It didn't take long to find out the answer: No. (see eg, >>5022507 pb, >>4961799 pb)
PART I: new NBC story on Tulsi Gabbard as a Russian sympathizer
PART II: Glenn Greenward's expose on the NBC article
PART I: the NBC article
[1] Feb 2–NBC releases a new story: Russia's propaganda machine discovers 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard. First paragraph: "The Russian propaganda machine that tried to influence the 2016 U.S. election is now promoting the presidential aspirations of a controversial Hawaii Democrat who earlier this month declared her intention to run for president in 2020."
(Sounds like Putin thinks Gabbard is /their girl/–or at least, that's what NBC would like us to believe….)
[2] To support this claim, NBC cites "experts" Russian online propaganda starting with Clint Watts, who was quoted as saying that "Gabbard has past or present positions on several issues that would be attractive to the Russian propaganda machine."
(Hmmm….Watts is affiliated with the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) and co-creator of the highly questionable algorithm Hamilton 68 along with Jonathon Morgan of New Knowledge.)
[3] Next experts: "Analysts at New Knowledge, the company the Senate Intelligence Committee used to track Russian activities in the 2016 election."
(Neglects to reveal their deceptive activities in Alabama and the ensuring scandal; see ).
[4] NK's Renee Diresta tells us there was "chatter" in "anonymous online message boards, including those known for fomenting right-wing troll campaigns [that] discussed Gabbard's usefulness."
[5] Where did this chatter occur? According to Renee Diresta, it was on 8chan, where Gabbard was discussed as a "good divider" candidate.
(For Keks, I did an Archive search and found a brief discussion around post >>4736414 pb: "Tulsi Gabbard running for POTUS is great news for Pres. Trump since she will divide the Dem Party/ like a Green Candidate would or like Bernie did." Congrats, anons, you didn't make notable but you did get noticed by New Knowledge–which apparently monitors this board.)
[6] NBC also informs us the "DisInfo 2018, part of the cybersecurity firm New Knowledge, found that 3 of the top 15 URLs shared by the 800 social media accounts affiliated with…Russian propaganda operations…were about Gabbard."
(Now we're into the realm of FULL BLOWN FANTASY–the MSM's "Muh Russia" BIG LIE. BTW, last I heard, the fake number was 600, not 800. Muh inflation??)
[7] Last, NBC refers to Josh Russell "a researcher and 'troll hunger' known for identifying fake accounts," who said he spotted clusters of "suspicious accounts" that retweeted very similar text about Gabbard (indicating fake bot accounts).
(Who the heck is he? Find out in Part II!)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russia-s-propaganda-machine-discovers-2020-democratic-candidate-tulsi-gabbard-n964261?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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''Looks like someone on the Left isn't happy about Tulsi Gabbard running for POTUS and is using NBC to paint her as pro-Russia, using ginned up evidence to prop up their claims.''