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Head of Russian Propaganda Site USA Really Calls It Quits
Read more: Head of Russian Propaganda Site USA Really Calls It QuitsAlexander Malkevich and his website USA Really were sanctioned for “attempted election interference” last year Alexander Malkevich (source) Alexander Malkevich, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Russian propaganda website USA Really, has quit the project after he and his site were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in December. Malkevich, who currently leads Russia’s Civic Chamber of…
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Bogus Copyright Complaints Sought to Suppress Michael Moates Sexual Harassment Claims
Read more: Bogus Copyright Complaints Sought to Suppress Michael Moates Sexual Harassment ClaimsAt least three young women have accused conservative writer Michael Moates of sending sexually suggestive messages Multiple bogus copyright complaints sought to suppress sexual harassment claims made last year against conservative writer and D.C. Chronicle founder Michael Moates. The complaints, sent in Moates’ name over a five-month period starting October, requested that Google delist six…
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Former Trump Campaign Aide Michael Caputo Is Enlisting MAGA Supporters to Shield Him From Antifa
Read more: Former Trump Campaign Aide Michael Caputo Is Enlisting MAGA Supporters to Shield Him From Antifa200 members of the MAGA Quick Reaction Force are prepared to face down anti-fascist protesters at Michael Caputo’s home and office Michael R. Caputo (source) Former Trump campaign communications adviser Michael R. Caputo has created a new mass text system to alert nearby Donald J. Trump supporters to Antifa protests of his home and office.…
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Mumbai Cyber Police Demand Personal Details of Modi Critics
Read more: Mumbai Cyber Police Demand Personal Details of Modi CriticsMumbai cyber police are demanding that U.S. tech companies hand over personal details of Internet users who insulted Indian PM Narendra Modi Last year, I blogged about efforts by Mumbai’s “cyber police crime division” to purge the Internet of doctored images of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Since that post, the censorious cyber squad has refocused its…
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Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President Erdoğan
Read more: Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President ErdoğanTwitter deletes ‘insulting’ tweets/accounts by critics of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following court order Since 2016, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sued, arrested, and detained thousands of opposition journalists, academics, civil servants, and other critics of his government’s increasingly authoritarian policies. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (source) Online, Erdoğan’s efforts to control his public image have been equally…
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Round-Up 2018: Here’s the Scoop
Read more: Round-Up 2018: Here’s the ScoopRussian trolls and stealth political campaigns. Revisiting my scoopiest stories of 2018 2018 was undoubtedly my most successful year since I started writing at Shooting the Messenger almost five years ago. Once described as an “amateur sleuth” by Politico and unceremoniously trashed by a surrogate for U.S. president Donald Trump on Fox News (something I’ve…
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Head of Russian Disinfo Website Sanctioned by U.S. Treasury
Read more: Head of Russian Disinfo Website Sanctioned by U.S. TreasuryIn June I scooped a story about attempts by Russian government media adviser Alexander Malkevich to set up a troll factory-linked propaganda website in Washington, D.C. Yesterday Malkevich was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for “attempted election interference” Since April, I’ve been doing original reporting on USA Really, a now-infamous disinformation website aimed at U.S. readers.…
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Russian Trolls Gatecrashed a Washington D.C. Midterm Election Party at the National Press Club
Read more: Russian Trolls Gatecrashed a Washington D.C. Midterm Election Party at the National Press ClubRussia’s Federal News Agency allegedly engaged in attempts to interfere in U.S. elections. Last week it gatecrashed a National Press Club election night party attended by Michael Avenatti, who told me: “Putin must be so proud.” Attendees at a National Press Club election night event have become targets of a disinformation campaign by Moscow’s Federal…
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Daily Beast: D.C. Media Venture Boasts Indicted Russian Agent as CFO
Read more: Daily Beast: D.C. Media Venture Boasts Indicted Russian Agent as CFOIn June, USA Really tried to set up shop in Washington D.C. It just implicated itself in a multi-million dollar criminal conspiracy. Check out my latest byline at The Daily Beast. Via “D.C.-Based Russian Media Venture Boasts that Indicted Kremlin Operative Is Its CFO” by Lachlan Markay and Dean Sterling Jones, The Daily Beast, October 26, 2018:…
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Emboldened by Trump, Alt-Right Gloats Over Death of John McCain
Read more: Emboldened by Trump, Alt-Right Gloats Over Death of John McCainA white nationalist, a professional provocateur, a former revenge pornographer, and a big basket of deplorables On August 14, 2017, Unite the Right rally organiser Richard Spencer held a press conference at his home in Alexandria, Virginia, where he spoke at length about the alt-right’s affinity for US president Donald Trump. “We were connected with Trump…
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