{"id":405,"date":"2023-01-16T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=405"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:50:13","slug":"new-twitter-files-confirm-dems-knowingly-lied-about-russian-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"New Twitter Files Confirm Dems Knowingly Lied about Russian Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/author\/bensellers\">Ben Sellers<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/subscribe\/\">Headline USA<\/a>) In the latest batch of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/twitter-files\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter Files<\/a>, journalist\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/matt-taibbi\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Taibbi<\/a>\u00a0confirmed the widely held suspicion that Democrats knowingly lied about the presence of Russian bots that, they claimed, spread disinformation using viral hashtag campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1.THREAD: Twitter Files #14<br>THE RUSSIAGATE LIES<br>One: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReleaseTheMemo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReleaseTheMemo<\/a> Hashtag<\/p>&mdash; Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1613589031773769739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the most egregious offenders was Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/adam-schiff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Schiff<\/a>&nbsp;of California\u2014who was, at the time, the ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He, along with Sen.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/dianne-feinstein\" target=\"_blank\">Dianne Feinstein<\/a>, D-Calif., who was a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, published a letter on Jan. 23, 2018, demanding that Twitter and Facebook conduct an investigation of Russian bot interference, even though Twitter had earlier provided evidence to debunk the claims that the accounts in question were of Russian origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">7.Nonetheless, national media in January and early February of 2018 denounced the Nunes report in oddly identical language, calling it a \u201cjoke\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IkTXRGrfaH\">pic.twitter.com\/IkTXRGrfaH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1613589047926226944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/nworeport.me\/2023\/01\/13\/new-twitter-files-confirm-dems-knowingly-lied-about-russian-bots\/\">New Twitter Files Confirm Dems Knowingly Lied about Russian Bots \u2013 Nwo Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Ben Sellers,\u00a0Headline USA) In the latest batch of\u00a0Twitter Files, journalist\u00a0Matt Taibbi\u00a0confirmed the widely held suspicion that Democrats knowingly lied about the presence of Russian bots that, they claimed, spread disinformation using viral hashtag campaigns. Among the most egregious offenders was Rep.&nbsp;Adam Schiff&nbsp;of California\u2014who was, at the time, the ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee. He, along with Sen.\u00a0Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who was a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, published a letter on Jan. 23, 2018, demanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}