Substack writer Matt Taibbi authored the latest installment of the Twitter Files, which focus on the dubious source that was often cited to push the Russian bots narrative.
But behind the scenes, Twitter executives trashed Hamilton 68 and deliberated whether they should publicly rebuke ASD."I think we need to just call this out on the bulls--- it is," Twitter's then-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth wrote in an October 2017 email, later writing in January 2018 that the dashboard"falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots.
"Hamilton 68 was the source for stories claiming Russian bots pushed terms like ‘deep state’ or hashtags like #FireMcMaster, #SchumerShutdown, #WalkAway, #ReleaseTheMemo, #AlabamaSenateRace, and #ParklandShooting, among many others," Taibbi tweeted. According to a January 2018 email exchange, Roth sounded the alarm of the ethical dilemma Twitter had faced, writing"Real people need to know they’ve been unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse."
There were"internal concerns" at Twitter"about taking on the politically connected Alliance for Securing Democracy," per Taibbi. "What makes this an important story is the sheer scale of the news footprint left by Hamilton 68’s digital McCarthyism," Taibbi wrote.
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