New Emails Suggest Twitter Misled Public On ‘Hamilton 68’ Data Pushing Russia Hoax
New emails are released as part the “Twitter Files” The emails show that the company misled journalists, politicians, and public officials, allowing for a high-level disinformation operation in government and media. A comparison of emails uncovered by Matt Taibbi with the company’s public statements in 2018 reveals serious discrepancies.
Clint Watts, a former FBI agent who is currently a contributor to MSNBC, founded Hamilton 68. It is a digital version of the FBI. “dashboard” Journalists and academics can evaluate alleged “Russian disinformation” Being spread online by specific lists.
Taibbi’s latest Report Emails from Yoel Rot, an ex-Head of Trust and Safety, were found in internal Twitter documents. They proved that the anti Trump dashboard was spreading false information which incorrectly classified Americans among Russian bots. This allowed the data dashboard to fuel false media and Democrat claims that President Donald Trump had treasonously colluded with Russia, hamstringing Trump’s execution of his presidential duties.
Taibbi discovered Twitter. “reverse-engineered” Hamilton 68’s methodology to recreate its highly publicized list of alleged Russian bots. Twitter, however, was hiding its ignorance.
In a Jan. 3, 2018 email, Roth said his reverse-engineering proved Hamilton 68’s claims of providing data to prove Russian disinformation was festering on social media were “totally bogus.”
“They don’t know that we have the list, though, and they’ve refused to release it,” He wrote.
Roth advised hitting the Alliance for Securing Democracy (one of the groups behind Hamilton68) with an ultimatum. “either you release the list, or we will.”
12. Twitter executives were in a unique position to recreate Hamilton’s list, reverse-engineering it from the site’s requests for Twitter data.
Concerned about the deluge of Hamilton-based news stories, they did so – and what they found shocked them. pic.twitter.com/qRZyylALUe
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
The timeline here is important. Roth reverse-engineered the list on Oct. 3, 2017, and emailed it to his colleagues in a Google Doc. Over the next several months, Twitter employees repeatedly vented their frustrations with Hamilton 68 over email. The amount of media attention the project was generating created a public relations headache for Twitter, so they were eager to expose the truth about the dashboard.
12. Twitter executives were in a unique position to recreate Hamilton’s list, reverse-engineering it from the site’s requests for Twitter data.
Concerned about the deluge of Hamilton-based news stories, they did so – and what they found shocked them. pic.twitter.com/qRZyylALUe
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
Frenzied politicians desperately clinging to the Russia-collusion narrative started to pressure Facebook and Twitter in early 2018. When Republicans on the House Intelligence committee penned a now-vindicated internal report on FBI abuses, a hashtag that said “#ReleaseTheMemo” went viral on Twitter.
“When the hashtag went viral, [Rep. Adam] Schiff had a theory that it wasn’t the American public that was interested in abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” Mollie Hemingway noted all the way back in 2018. “Nope, it was Russians! Secret Russian
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