In the latest issue of the Twitter Files, independent journalist Matt Taibbi revealed a scam on the social media platform that implicated most major corporate media news outlets in promoting false claims of Russian disinformation.
It included the 2017 Alabama U.S. Senate race, which had then-Democrat candidate Doug Jones pull off an upset against Republican nominee Roy Moore.
Hamilton 68 was a digital "dashboard" that claimed to track "Russian disinformation" and its influence in the United States by analyzing the behavior of over 600 accounts it identified as Russian bots or pushing "Russian influence activities."
According to Taibbi, major news outlets in the United States used Hamilton 68 — created by former FBI agent Clint Watts — as a source for hundreds of stories related to Russian disinformation. However, Taibbi reported the dashboard itself was based on fraudulent data, and the alleged Russian bots were mostly ordinary users unaware their account had been a part of the list.
https://t.co/0yk0y7VlGX outlets for years cited Watts and Hamilton 68 when claiming Russian bots were “amplifying” an endless parade of social media causes – against strikes in Syria, in support of Fox host Laura Ingraham, the campaigns of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. pic.twitter.com/Qwf5UuKUkb
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
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