1) Whistleblower says "New Knowledge" cybersecurity firm run by Jonathan Morgan & Renee DiResta trafficked in election disinformation.
Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. pauldthacker.com
Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. pauldthacker.com
2) New Knowledge filled w/ former NSA agents who explained the game to Betsy Depuis while out for drinks:
NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.
NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.
3) Betsy Depuis was tasked w/ improving the Hamilton 68 dashboard, a job paid for by the Center for American Progress. @mtaibbi later exposed the dashboard spread disinformation, and the Washington Post ran multiple corrections.
4) The Hamilton 68 upgrade involved the German Marshall Fund, Center for American Progress's Think Progress, and "disinformation journalist" Andrew Weisburd.
Basically, a coalition of left of centre groups.
Basically, a coalition of left of centre groups.
5) While updating the Hamilton 68 dashboard, Depuis began tracking Russian disinformation in an Alabama Senate race, not realising New Knowledge was creating the disinformation bots.
In the office, people called this the "Alabama Project."
In the office, people called this the "Alabama Project."
6) DEPUIS: "The dashboard I was building that the Center for American Progress funded was, in effect, measuring the outcome of New Knowledge’s disinformation campaign against Roy Moore, who is a reprehensible person."
7) Depuis says that Stanford's Renee DiResta worked on the Alabama Project, but DiResta says she joined New Knowledge after the project ended.
7) Depuis eventually reached the end of her rope.
"We had this all-hands meeting where they discussed that they had successfully run a disinformation campaign, and announced that DoD was funding us to build a disinformation propagation platform."
"We had this all-hands meeting where they discussed that they had successfully run a disinformation campaign, and announced that DoD was funding us to build a disinformation propagation platform."
8) After she complained that she did not want to be involved in creating disinformation, New Knowledge shoved Depuis out the door, forcing her to sign an NDA.
9) DEPUIS: I think they fired me because I was being insubordinate. And that I voiced disagreement about what they were doing.
10) DEPUIS: "I just kept quiet, until now, because I didn’t want to be accused of spreading a conspiracy theory."
READ THE INTERVIEW AND VIEW DOCUMENTS AT @DisInfoChron pauldthacker.com
READ THE INTERVIEW AND VIEW DOCUMENTS AT @DisInfoChron pauldthacker.com
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