By Enabling Leftist Misinformation, Twitter Helped Democrats And Their Media Allies Peddle Another Russia Hoax

Top congressional Democrats and the corrupt corporate media falsely branded calls for the declassification of Devin Nunes’ memorandum on FISA abuse a Russia influence operation, internal documents from Twitter Published Thursday reveal. Twitter executives realized that the story was false and allowed it to spread rather than correct the facts.

Soon after Devin Nunes (then-chair of House Intelligence Committee) published a classified Jan. 18, 2018 memorandum detailing abuses of the FBI and Department of Justice in obtaining a FISA surveillance warrant on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page. Twitter started trending #ReleaseTheMemo. Within days, Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff issued a press release. Release They announced that they had written a letter to Twitter, Facebook and other tech giants asking them to approve it. “immediately conduct an in-depth forensic examination of the reported actions by Russian bots and trolls surrounding the #ReleaseTheMemo online campaign and how users were exposed to this campaign as a result of Russian efforts.”

They claim the #ReleaseTheMemo Campaign was the embodiment of this campaign. “Russian efforts,” Feinstein and Schiff referenced the Alliance for Securing Democracy (or ASD) and its claim that the hashtag was stolen. “gained the instant attention and assistance of social media accounts linked to Russian influence operations.”

Democrat Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Sheldon Whitehouse soon issued their own missive to Twitter, even though the internal communications released on Thursday revealed attempts by Twitter executives to warn senator staffers that the story of a Russian influence campaign didn’t stand. 

“We find it reprehensible that Russian agents have so eagerly manipulated innocent Americans,” the senators wrote, also relying on ASD’s view that the trending of the hashtag represented a Russian influence operation. 

However, internal communications by Twitter were made public in the most recent Twitter Files Thread Independent journalist Matt Taibbi reveals that the #ReleaseTheMemo campaign is organic. Twitter concluded that ASD was the sole source of claims that Russian bots or trolls were responsible for the trending hashtag. “flawed methodology.” 

“We should have a separate discussion about if/when/how we confront ASD privately with our knowledge of their flawed methodology/dashboard and seek to help them reorient in a more accurate direction,” After the Schiff-Feinstein press releases dropped, one Twitter insider wrote. 

Another Twitter executive was fine with writing publicly: “If ASD isn’t going to fact check with us, we should feel free to correct the record of their work.”

Yoel Roth, the ex-Twitter head for trust and safety raised the question as to whether it was. “now the time to go public with the fact that any given user only counts once towards a trend?” Roth continued: “Given all the swirl around #releasethememo is based on [ASD], which is based on raw tweet count, we’d be able to broadly refute it without actually sharing anything too sensitive.” 

While Roth’s email didn’t explain why he believed ASD’s conclusions rested on “raw tweet count,” Another Twitter exchange mentioned the fact that Twitter, unbeknownst of ASD, was a Twitter account

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