Sunday, August 6, 2017

Tracking Russian Propaganda In Real Time On Twitter

The banner for the Hamilton 68's homepage. Screenshot/Hamilton 68

Business Insider: A new website named after a Founding Father is tracking Russian propaganda in real time

* A new website is attempting to track the spread of Russian propaganda and themes on Twitter in real time.
* The project is an attempt to undermine Russia's disinformation campaign in the United States and the West more broadly.
* Researchers are continously monitoring roughly 600 Twitter accounts "selected for their relationship to Russian-sponsored influence and disinformation campaigns."

A website launched on Wednesday by a former FBI special agent-turned disinformation expert claims to track Russian propaganda in near-real time, as it spreads via Twitter accounts that have been linked to Russian influence operations.

Clint Watts, who garnered national media attention after testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russia's ongoing cyber and propaganda war against the West, spearheaded the project called Hamilton 68 — a hat tip to the founding father's Federalist Papers No. 68.

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WNU Editor: The website for Hamilton 68 can be located here. It is interesting that the websites that are being flagged as being "stooges" of Russian disinformation campaigns are websites that are critical of progressives and Democratics. Is this a big thing .... no. I use Russian media sources all the time .... but I always identify who they are, and usually the reason why I post them is because I sense the story is accurate and true, and no one else is covering it. What would make Hamilton 68 a more interesting website is that if they track Russian themes on Twitter in real time, and then assess the accuracy of the tweets when time permits.

Hat tip to Fred for this link.

8 comments:

TWN said...

Russia, China, The US, the EU, Britain and Canada all pump out so much BS you need wings to keep above it. It's not bad enough these guys pump it out but we also have consumer propaganda we have to deal with. The news media is nothing but propaganda, the CBC should be called the Trans Muslim Femanazi Liberal Marxist Network,and the amazing thing is the idiots we call the citizens suck it up like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown said...

They have DisQus accounts too.

Unknown said...

CBC should be called the Trans Muslim Femanazi Liberal Marxist Network


Ditto

CBS,
ABC,
NBC,
CNN,
MSLSD,
...

I might add anti-science to the description as well

FemiNAZIs got this wrong

"'Manspreading' Is Science, Not Sexism"

Those feminist study dweebs never studied ergonomics.

Why should they? These liberals can just make stuff up, elect politicians to implement it & have people like CBS or CBC carry it.

Unknown said...

Manspreading is an Important Feminist Issue, Not Just Bad Social Etiquette - Gender Focus (i.e. the LIBERLA Viewpoint


There's a Reason Some Men Take Up So Much Space When They Sit -Vice.com

Carl said...

I'm told that Hamilton 68 is a merger of Clinton-Obama humanitarian interventionists with Cheney neocons. In other words, this is the war party, itself, that purports to be protecting us from Russian propaganda. Does anybody see the irony here?

Jay Farquharson said...

http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/2017/08/america-crushed-soviet-union-will.html?m=1

LMFAO

Jay Farquharson said...

Funny,

The Russian bot's were tweeting that out only yesterday,

and here it is already,

LMFAO

Unknown said...

"Outside of mathematics, it is a matter of some controversy as to whether the truth function for material implication provides an adequate treatment of conditional statements in a natural language such as English ..."