TDS#3: Giuliani is combing space for Ukraine info while we figure out if Mayor Pete is a CIA plant
Then find a comfortable place to read a long piece about the looming disinformation efforts of Trump 2020
Rudy Giuliani is “out in space” on the Ukraine garbage he’s trying to peddle, according to Pulitzer-winning WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson. (Photo illustration by me)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/07/fox-news-internal-briefing-disinformation-contributors
FOX News is warning FOX News not to buy FOX commentator Giuliani’s Ukraine bullshit
A FOX News internal briefing put together by a senior political affairs specialist has warned his colleagues against using the blatantly-false Ukraine conspiracies being peddled on the network by Rudy Giuliani, John Solomon, Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. If the network itself doesn’t believe the information they distribute, that’s a key indicator to maybe find news elsewhere.
Mayor Pete tells a crowd that even if he were a CIA plant, he’s a better candidate than Donald Trump. At least, that’s what I’m imagining is happening. (Courtesy photo by Gage Skidmore)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-left-internet-thinks-mayor-pete-buttigieg-is-a-secret-agent
Far-left conspiracies believe Mayor Pete is a CIA plant, probably made in lab
Pointing to Mayor Pete’s “mesmerizing, hypnotic blue eyes,” Steve Poikonen, host of the YouTube vlog series Slow News Day, says confidently that the candidate is a CIA Democrat plant. Slow News Day indeed! But the conspiracy had enough legs to inspire Foreign Policy to write a rebuttal saying Pete is just Pete, not Agent Pete.
Hoping everyone has an excellent President’s Day.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
Lastly here’s a long, wild read from The Atlantic about the Trump Train’s billion dollar disinformation campaign to reelect the president. It covers how new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election.